Amazon.com Inc v. Jing

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: November 3, 2023
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01641
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 AMAZON.COM INC., AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, NINTENDO OF 8 AMERICA INC, CASE NO. 2:23-cv-01641-MJP-BAT 9 Plaintiffs, PRE-SERVICE SCHEDULING ORDER 10 v. 11 AMLLBOCARDS, BLKEI, CHENGDAHUO, CHIAOFUSHI, 12 FYHALE DIRECT, JIADAN-US, MARSBERG, SRHDFBEYGFIS, 13 XINGFANG, 14 Defendants.

15 Plaintiffs have initiated a civil Counterfeit Enforcement Action that is subject to General 16 Order 03-23. The Action presents issues of whether Plaintiffs can meet the service requirements 17 under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, as to the manner in which service must be made and the timeliness of 18 service. The Court accordingly ORDERS: 19 1. This Order applies whether service will be completed within a judicial district of the 20 United States or in a foreign country.1 Within 90 days of the date this Order is signed, 21

22 1 Although the 90-day time limit for service in Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) “does not apply to service in a foreign country[,]” the rule “does not preclude the court from ‘setting a reasonable time limit for service in a 23 foreign country to properly manage a civil case.’” Inst. of Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc’y, 153 F. Supp. 3d 1291, 1320 (W.D. Wash. 2015) (quoting Baja Devs. LLC v. TSD Loreto Partners, 2009 WL 2762050, at *1 (D. Ariz. Aug. 26, 2009)). 1 Plaintiffs shall file: (a) an affidavit proving service; (b) a motion for alternative 2 service; (c) a motion requesting an extension of the time to serve, setting forth all 3 efforts taken over the last 90 days to serve defendants; and/or (d) a motion for pre- 4 service discovery.

5 2. If the Court grants any such motions, Plaintiffs shall, no later than 180 days from the 6 date this Order is signed, complete pre-service discovery and file: (a) an affidavit 7 proving service; or (b) a motion for an additional extension of the time to serve, 8 detailing Plaintiffs’ efforts to complete service and when they expect to complete 9 service. 10 3. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to prevent Plaintiffs from taking these 11 actions earlier than required. 12 4. If service upon all named defendants is not perfected within one year of the date of 13 this Order, the Court anticipates issuing an order to show cause why the case should 14 not be dismissed without prejudice for failure to prosecute.

15 DATED this 3rd day of November, 2023. 16 A 17 BRIAN A. TSUCHIDA United States Magistrate Judge 18 19 20 21 22 23