China United Lines, LTD v. Amazon.com Services LLC

District Court, S.D. New York·Decided July 30, 2025·No. 1:23-cv-10313·Unknown

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK penne eee eee ences OX CHINA UNITED LINES, LTD, a China : company, . CIV. NO. 1-23-cv-10313-PKC Plaintiff, -against- PROTECTIVE ORDER AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, : Defendant.

The parties having agreed to the following terms of confidentiality, and the Court having found that good cause exists for issuance of an appropriately tailored confidentiality order governing documents and information disclosed in the discovery phase of this action, it is therefore hereby: ORDERED that the parties to this action and their representatives, agents, and third-party experts, as well as any other person subject to this Order—including without limitation, all third parties providing discovery in this action, and all other interested persons with actual or constructive notice of this Order—shall adhere to the following terms: - 1. Any person subject to this Order who receives from any other person subject to this Order any “Discovery Material” (i.e., information of any kind produced or disclosed in the course of discovery in this action) that is designated as “Confidential” or “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” pursuant to the terms of this Order shall not disclose such Confidential Discovery Material or Attorneys’ Eyes Only Discovery Material to anyone else except as expressly permitted hereunder. 2. The person producing any given Discovery Material may designate Confidential Discovery Material which contains private, secret, or restricted information of any party that by its nature must be maintained in confidence to maintain the interests of that party, including but not limited to: a. previously nonpublic financial information (including, without limitation, profitability reports or estimates, percentage fees, design fees, royalty rates, minimum guarantee payments, sales reports, and sale margins); b. previously nonpublic contracts terms between the parties; c. information received in confidence or under restriction from disclosure from third parties; or

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d. any other category of information hereinafter given Confidential status by the Court. 3. The person producing any given Discovery Material may designate Attorneys’ Eyes Only such portion of material as consists of any nonpublic information that the producing person deems in good faith would lead to significant harm or injury to the reputation and/or business of the producing person, including but not limited to: a. previously nonpublic business plans, product development information, marketing plans, trade secrets, and other competitively sensitive information; b. any information implicated by Chinese data security laws, including but not limited to the Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China, and/or the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China; or c. any other category of information hereinafter given Attorneys’ Eyes Only status by _ the Court. 4. With respect to the Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only portion of any Discovery Material other than deposition transcripts and exhibits, the producing person or that person’s counsel may designate such portions as “Confidential” or “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” by stamping or otherwise clearly marking as “Confidential” or “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” the protected portion in a manner that will not interfere with legibility or audibility. 5. Any party to this agreement may designate testimony given or information produced at a deposition as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only by making a statement on the record of the deposition or within ten (10) days of the close of the deposition. Until the passing of ten (10) days from the closing of the deposition, all testimony given or information produced at such deposition shall be treated as Confidential. Any person that designates testimony or information produced at a deposition as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only shall review and declassify all non-confidential portions of the deposition transcript within thirty (30) days of receipt of the final transcript. If the person requires additional time to declassify the testimony or information, they may request additional time in writing to the party(ies) awaiting declassification, whose consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Until the expiration of that thirty (30) day period, or such longer period as agreed to between the parties, the parties agree to treat the entirety of such deposition transcript and exhibits as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only per the designation made by the producing person. 6. If at any time prior to the trial of this action a producing person realizes that some portion(s) of Discovery Material previously produced without being designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only should be designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only, the producing person may so designate by apprising all prior recipients of the Discovery Material in writing, and such designated portion(s) of the Discovery Material will thereafter be treated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only under the terms of this Order. 7. No person subject to this Order, other than the producing person, shall disclose any Discovery Material designated as Confidential to any other person, except for:

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a. the parties to this action (including, without limitation, the parties’ employees, contractors, in-house counsel, and agents who have a need to know the Confidential Discovery Material); b. outside counsel retained in connection with this action and any related action, including any paralegal, clerical and other assistant employed by such counsel and assigned to this matter, and vendors retained by such counsel; c. as to any document, its author, addressee, and any other person indicated on the face of the document as having received a copy; d. any mediator or arbitrator engaged by the parties in this matter, provided such person has first executed a Non-Disclosure Agreement in the form attached hereto; e. any witness who counsel for a party in good faith believes may be called to testify at trial or deposition in this action may only be shown Discovery Material reasonably related to their anticipated testimony, provided such person has first executed a Non-Disclosure Agreement in the form attached hereto; f. any third party retained by a party to serve as an expert witness in connection with this action, provided such person has first executed a Non-Disclosure Agreement in the form attached hereto; g. stenographers engaged to transcribe depositions conducted in this action; and h. the Court and its support personnel. 8. No person subject to this Order, other than the producing person, shall disclose any Discovery Material designated as Attorneys’ Eyes Only to any other person, except for those identified in Paragraphs 7(b), 7(c), 7(d), 7(e), 7(f), 7(g), and 7(h). In addition, Attorneys’ Eyes Only Discovery Material may be disclosed to the following in-house counsel at each party: a. For China United Lines, LTD: Teresa Zhu b. For Amazon.com Services LLC: Tanisha Creed, Stacey LaRiviere, and Casey O’Brien. By mutual agreement, the parties may add to or change the in-house counsel designated in this Paragraph as circumstances require. 9. Any party who objects to any designation of confidentiality, or who requests further limits on disclosure, may, at any time prior to the trial of this action, serve upon counsel for the designating person a written notice stating with particularity the grounds of the objection or request for further limits.

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