ARISTA RECORDS LLC v. LIME GROUP LLC

No. 06 CV 5936(KMW).

715 F.Supp.2d 481 (2010)

ARISTA RECORDS LLC; Atlantic Recording Corporation; BMG Music; Capitol Records, Inc; Elektra Entertainment Group Inc; Interscope Records; Laface Records LLC; Motown Record Company, L.P.; Priority Records LLC; Sony BMG Music Entertainment; UMG Recordings, Inc; Virgin Records America, Inc.; and Warner Bros. Records Inc., Plaintiffs, v. LIME GROUP LLC; Lime Wire LLC; Mark Gorton; Greg Bildson; and M.J.G. Lime Wire Family Limited Partnership, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 25, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn D. Pomerantz , Kelly M. Klaus , Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, Jennifer L. Pariser , Sony Corporation of America, Robert William Clarida , Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New York, NY, Jonathan H. Blavin , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA, Karyn Annise Temple, Kenneth Lewinn Doroshow, Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Joseph Maddaloni, Jr. , Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., Morristown, NJ, Chul Pak , Michael S. Sommer , Tonia Maria Ouellette Klausner, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati P.C., New York, NY, for Defendants.


AMENDED OPINION & ORDER

KIMBA M. WOOD, District Judge:

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs are thirteen major record companies that collectively produce, manufacture, distribute, sell, and license "the vast majority of copyrighted sound recordings sold in the United States." (First Am. Compl. ¶ 1.) Plaintiffs raise various federal and state law claims of secondary copyright infringement against Lime Wire LLC (LW); Mark Gorton, the...

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