Opinion
Case No.: CV11-05356 PA (VBKx)
10-07-2011
ZUMBA FITNESS, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff, v. RENEE ETHERIDGE, an Individual, et al., Defendants.
PERMANENT INJUNCTION AGAINST
DEFENDANT RENEE ETHERIDGE
The Court, pursuant to the Stipulation for Entry of Permanent Injunction ("Stipulation"), between Plaintiff ZUMBA FITNESS, LLC ("Plaintiff"), on the one hand, and Defendant RENEE ETHERIDGE ("Defendant"), on the other hand, hereby ORDERS, ADJUDICATES and DECREES that a permanent injunction shall be and hereby is entered in the above-referenced matter as follows:
1. PERMANENT INJUNCTION. Defendant and any person or entity acting in concert with, or at the direction of her, including any and all agents, servants, employees, partners, assignees, distributors, suppliers, resellers and any others over which she may exercise control, are hereby restrained and enjoined, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. §1116, from engaging in, directly or indirectly, or authorizing or assisting any third party to engage in, any of the following activities in the United States and throughout the world:
a. copying, manufacturing, importing, exporting, marketing, selling, offering for sale, distributing or dealing in any product or service that uses, or otherwise making any use of, any of Plaintiff's Zumba® and Zumba Fitness® copyrights, trademarks, and/or any intellectual property that is confusingly or substantially similar to, or that constitutes a colorable imitation of, any of Plaintiff's Zumba® and Zumba Fitness® copyrights and trademarks, whether such use is as, on, in or in connection with any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name, logo, design, Internet use, website, domain name, metatags, advertising, promotions, solicitations, commercial exploitation, television, web-based or any other program, or any product or service, or otherwise;
b. performing or allowing others employed by or representing her, or under her control, to perform any act or thing which is likely to injure Plaintiff, any of Plaintiff's Zumba® and Zumba Fitness® copyrights and trademarks, and/or Plaintiff's business reputation or goodwill;
c. engaging in any acts of federal and/or state copyright infringement, trademark infringement, false designation of origin, unfair competition, dilution, or other act which would tend damage or injure Plaintiff; and/or
d. using any Internet domain name or website that includes any Plaintiff's trademarks, including the Zumba® and Zumba Fitness® marks.
2. Defendant is ordered to deliver immediately for destruction all unauthorized products, including counterfeit Zumba® and Zumba Fitness® products and related products, labels, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, receptacles and advertisements relating thereto in his possession or under his control bearing any of Plaintiff's intellectual property or any simulation, reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitations thereof, and all plates, molds, heat transfers, screens, matrices and other means of making the same, to the extent that any of these items are in Defendant's possession.
3. This Permanent Injunction shall be deemed to have been served upon Defendant at the time of its execution by the Court.
4. The Court finds there is no just reason for delay in entering this Permanent Injunction and, pursuant to Rule 54(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court directs immediate entry of this Permanent Injunction against Defendant.
5. NO APPEALS AND CONTINUING JURISDICTION. No appeals shall be taken from this Permanent Injunction, and the parties waive all rights to appeal. This Court expressly retains jurisdiction over this matter to enforce any violation of the terms of this Permanent Injunction.
6. NO FEES AND COSTS. Each party shall bear its own attorneys' fees and costs incurred in this matter.
IT IS SO ORDERED, ADJUDICATED and DECREED this 7th day of October, 2011.
HON. PERCY ANDERSON
United States District Judge for the Central
District of California