CrossBorder Solutions, Inc. n/k/a Exactera Inc. v. Macias, Gini, & OConnell, LLP

District Court, S.D. New York·Decided April 17, 2023·No. 7:20-cv-04877·Unknown

Opinion

7:20-cv-4877 (NSR) DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: DATE FILED: 4/17/2023

The Court has reviewed the parties’ attached requests to file documents under seal (ECF Nos. 222, 24¢€ and 253). The Court notes that a number of the requests ask the Court to file portions of documents, rather than complete documents, under seal, and that all requests fail to identify the ECF Nos. of the documents that the parties have asked the Court to file under seal. As the Court may only direct that complete documents be filed under seal and requests that the partie identify the ECF Nos. of the documents the parties desire the Court to file under seal, the parties’ lette motions to file documents under seal located at ECF Nos. 222, 246, and 253 are denied without prejudice and with leave to renew. The parties are directed to file revised requests that identify the complete documents (rather than portions of documents) the parties desire to be filed under seal and provide their corresponding ECF numbers, so that that the Court may properly consider the parties’ requests. The Clerk of the Court is kindly directed to terminate the motions at ECF Nos. 222, 246, anc 253, Dated: April 17, 2023 ORDERED: _ White Plains, NY ee er > N-NECSON.S. ROMAN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 31 West 52nd Street | New York, NY 10019-6131 | tel 212.858.1000 | fax 212.858.1500 Kenneth W. Taber tel: +1.212.858.1813 kenneth.taber@pillsburylaw.com December 5, 2022 VIA ECF Hon. Nelson S. Roman, United States District Judge The Hon. Charles L. Brieant Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse 300 Quarropas St. White Plains, NY 10601-4150 Re: CrossBorder Solutions, Inc. v. Macias, Gini & O’Connell, LLP, Case No.: 7:20- cv-04877-NSR-JCM: Plaintiffs’ Request for Leave to File Under Seal Dear Judge Roman: We write on behalf of Plaintiffs CrossBorder Solutions, Inc. and Cross Border Transactions, LLC d/b/a CrossBorder Solutions (together, “CrossBorder”), pursuant to Rule 3.A.i1 of Your Honor’s Individual Practices in Civil Cases, to request leave to file certain documents under seal pursuant to the parties’ Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement and Protective Order, dated September 29, 2020, Dkt. 81 (“Protective Order’). In conjunction with CrossBorder’s Reply Memorandum in Further Support of Their Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (“Reply Brief’), Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants Macias, Gini & O’Connell, LLP’s (“MGO”) and Sanjay Agarwal’s (“Agarwal,” together with MGO, “Defendants”) Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (“Opposition Brief”), and Responses to Defendants’ Rule 56.1 Statement of Undisputed Material Facts (“Responsive SMF”), CrossBorder respectfully requests to file under seal: (1) portions of the Reply Brief, (11) portions of the Opposition Brief; (111) portions of the Responsive SMF; and (iv) the following exhibits to the Declaration of Kenneth W. Taber, dated December 5, 2022, filed contemporaneously therewith: e Exhibit A: Liga Hoy’s handwritten notes, marked as Exhibit 2 in her February 19, 2021 deposition, with the Bates-range XBS019144-XBS019145, submitted in the JAMS Arbitration, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. e Exhibit B: Excerpts of the Deposition Transcript of Sanjay Agarwal, dated May 23, 2022, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. e Exhibit C: Excerpts of the Deposition Transcript of Sevine H. Aydemir, dated February 23, 2021, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. e Exhibit D: Excerpts of the Deposition Transcript of Sevine H. Aydemir, dated June 14, 2022, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order.

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• Exhibit E: Excerpts of the Deposition Transcript of Liga Hoy, dated February 19, 2021, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. • Exhibit F: Excerpts of the Deposition Transcript of Jiaxin “Claire” Song, dated February 24, 2021, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. • Exhibit H: A stipulation signed by counsel for CrossBorder and Defendant MGO, respectively, dated May 20, 2021, containing information marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. • Exhibit I: CrossBorder’s Brief on Damages, dated April 12, 2021, submitted in the JAMS Arbitration, marked Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. • Exhibit J: Declaration of Stephanie Israel in support of CrossBorder’s Brief on Damages, dated April 12, 2021, submitted in the JAMS Arbitration, marked Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. • Exhibit L: An email from Sanjay Agarwal to Liga Hoy, dated May 19, 2020, marked Highly Confidential under the parties’ Protective Order. Pursuant to Rule 4.A. of Your Honor’s Individual Practices in Civil Cases, a party seeking to file a document under seal must address the presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents. The Second Circuit set forth the relevant standard in Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110 (2d Cir. 2006), under which “[t]here is a common law presumption in favor of permitting public access to judicial documents, which are those documents ‘relevant to the performance of the judicial function and useful in the judicial process.” GoSMiLE, Inc. v. Dr. Jonathan Levine, D.M.D. P.C., 769 F. Supp. 2d 630, 649 (S.D.N.Y. 2011) (quoting Lugosch, 435 F.3d at 119). A court balances this common law presumption of access against competing comparisons, including “the privacy interests of those resisting disclosure.” Lugosch, 435 F.3d at 120 (quoting United States v. Amodeo, 71 F.3d 1044, 1050 (2d Cir. 1995)). Thus, the issue is whether “the privacy interests of the defendants outweigh the presumption of public access.” GoSMiLE, 769 F. Supp. 2d at 649-50. Here, Exhibits A and H contain excerpts of CrossBorder’s trade secret Master List at issue in this case. Likewise, Exhibits B, C, D, E, F, I, J and L contain confidential and proprietary non-public information, including information about CrossBorder’s clients, costs, renewal rates, and information pertaining to the substance and safeguards around CrossBorder’s trade secret Master List at issue in this case. Additionally, Plaintiffs’ Reply Brief, Opposition Brief, and Responsive SMF contain confidential information obtained from CrossBorder’s Master List, such as client contact information, confidential information about customer preferences, and pricing information. The parties’ interests in protecting this information overcomes the presumption of access. See, e.g., Capri Sun GmbH v. Am. Beverage Corporation, No. 1:19-CV-01422 (PAE), 2021 WL 3036589, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. July 16, 2021) (“Courts commonly find that documents that contain trade secrets, confidential research and development information, marketing plans, revenue information, pricing information, and the like satisfy the sealing standard.”). Indeed, Your Honor has previously granted CrossBorder’s request to file under seal documents containing information regarding CrossBorder clients. See Dkt. 91. Because these documents contain confidential CrossBorder information of the kind that Your Honor has previously ruled is deserving of protecting and restricting public access, Plaintiffs respectfully requests that the Court grant their request for filing documents under seal. Defendants MGO and Agarwal consent to this motion. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Kenneth W. Taber Kenneth W. Taber cc: All Counsel of Record (Via ECF) iil NELSON MULLINS NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW 4140 Parklake Ave, Suite 200 Phillip J.

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