Yeti Coolers, LLC v. The Individuals, Business Entities, and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A

CourtDistrict Court, S.D. Florida
DecidedSeptember 28, 2021
Docket0:21-cv-62008
StatusUnknown

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Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

Case No. 21-cv-62008-BLOOM/Valle

YETI COOLERS, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

THE INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESS ENTITIES, AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS IDENTIFIED ON SCHEDULE A,

Defendants. ______________________________________

SEALED ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND SETTING HEARING ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Plaintiff’s Ex Parte Application for Entry of Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, and Order Restraining Transfer of Assets (the “Application for Temporary Restraining Order”), ECF No. [7]. The Court has carefully considered the Application for Temporary Restraining Order, the record in this case, and the applicable law, and is otherwise fully advised. By the instant Application, Plaintiff, YETI Coolers, LLC (“Plaintiff”), moves ex parte, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1116, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, and The All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), for entry of a temporary restraining order and an order restraining the financial accounts used by Defendants,1 and upon expiration of the temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction against Defendants, for alleged violations of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114 and 1125(a). Because Plaintiff has satisfied the requirements for the issuance of a

1 Defendants are the Individuals, Business Entities, and Unincorporated Associations identified on Schedule “A” hereto (collectively “Defendants”). Case No. 21-cv-62008-BLOOM/Valle

temporary restraining order, the Court grants Plaintiff's Application for Temporary Restraining Order. 1. FACTUAL BACKGROUND? Plaintiff, YETI Coolers, LLC, is the registered owner of the following trademarks, which are valid and registered on the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “YETI Marks”):

Trademark Registration Registration Date Class(es) / Good(s) Number

□ ET] 3,203,869 January 30, 2007 |IC 021 — Portable coolers

Tl N DRA 4,083,930 | January 10,2012 |IC 021 — Portable coolers

ROADIE 4,083,932 | January 10, 2012 |IC 021 — Portable Coolers

YETI TANK | 418.317 | SePtember22, lic 021 — Portable Coolers 2015

> The factual background is taken from the Plaintiffs Complaint, ECF No. [1]. Plaintiffs Application for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. [7], and supporting evidentiary submissions. Plaintiff filed declarations and exhibits annexed thereto in support of its Application for Temporary Restraining Order. The declarations are available in the docket at the following entries: Declaration of Jeni Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1], Declaration of Stephen M. Gaffigan, ECF No. [7-3], and Declaration of Kathleen Burns, ECF No. [7-6].

RAMBLER 4,998,897 July 12,2016 JIC 021 - Jugs

HOPPER FLIP) 5.171.380 | March 28, 2017 |IC 021 — Portable Coolers

HOPPER 5,232,872 June 27,2017 □□□ 021 — Portable coolers

IC 021 - Beverageware; cups; drinking glasses; tumblers for use as drinking vessels; jugs; mugs; temperature-retaining drinking vessels; storage containers for household or domestic use, namely, vacuum RAMBLER 5,233,441 June 27,2017 |container for hot or cold food and drink; beer growlers; insulated food and drink containers; stainless steel tumblers for use as drinking vessels; stainless steel drinking glasses; stainless steel beverageware; drinking straws.

YETI HOPPER 5,329,935 | November 7, 2017 |IC 021 — Portable coolers

YETI 5,885,556 | October 15, 2019 |IC 016 — Lunch bags

HAUL 5,886,316 | October 15,2019 |IC 021 — Non-electric coolers

IC 021 — Insulated lunch boxes; lunch boxes; lunch bags not of D AYTRIP 5,893,053 October 22, 2019 |paper; insulated lunch bags not of paper; non-electric portable coolers

6,153,620 September 15, |IC 021 — Non-electric portable BACKFLIP 2020 coolers

FLIP 6,200,636 | November lic 991 — Portable coolers 2020

IC 021 - Buckets; plastic buckets; industrial buckets; utility buckets; ranger buckets; fishing buckets; household containers for food and beverages; containers for Y household or kitchen use; plastic ETI 6,211,352 | December 1, 2020 portable household cargo containers; portable non-electric water coolers; water dispensers; insulated water dispensers; portable beverage dispenser; handles specially adapted for beverageware See Declaration of Jeni Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 4-5; ECF No. [1-2] (containing Certificates of Registrations for the YETI Marks at issue.) The YETI Marks are used in connection with the manufacture and distribution of quality goods in the categories identified above. See Declaration of Jeni Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 4-5. Defendants, by operating commercial Internet websites and a supporting domain under Defendants’ respective domain names identified on Schedule “A” hereto (the “Subject Domain Names”), have advertised, promoted, offered for sale, or sold goods bearing and/or using what

Plaintiff has determined to be counterfeits, infringements, reproductions and/or colorable imitations of the YETI Marks. See Declaration of Jeni Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 10-14; Declaration of Stephen M. Gaffigan, ECF No. [7-3] at 2; Declaration of Kathleen Burns, ECF No. [7-6] at 4.

Although each Defendant may not copy and infringe each YETI Mark for each category of goods protected, Plaintiff has submitted sufficient evidence showing that each Defendant has infringed, at least, one or more of the YETI Marks. See Declaration of Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 10-14. Defendants are not now, nor have they ever been, authorized or licensed to use, reproduce, or make counterfeits, reproductions, or colorable imitations of the YETI Marks. See Declaration of Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 10, 13-14. Counsel for Plaintiff retained Invisible Inc. (“Invisible”), a licensed private investigative firm, to investigate the promotion and sale of counterfeit and infringing versions of YETI branded products by certain Defendants and to obtain the available payment account data for receipt of funds paid to these Defendants for the sale of counterfeit versions of YETI branded

products. See Declaration of Jeni Zuercher, ECF No. [7-1] at 12; Declaration of Stephen M. Gaffigan, ECF No. [7-3] at 2; Declaration of Kathleen Burns, ECF No. [7-6] at 3. Invisible accessed the Internet websites operating under the Subject Domain Names for Defendant Numbers 1-25 and placed orders via these Subject Domain Names for the purchase of various products, all bearing and/or using counterfeits and infringements of at least one of YETI’s trademarks at issue in this action, and requested each product to be shipped to Invisible’s address in the Southern District of Florida. See Declaration of Kathleen Burns, ECF No. [7-6] at 4 and Comp. Ex. 1 thereto, ECF No. [7-7]. Each order was processed entirely online and following the placement of the orders, Invisible received information for finalizing payment3 for the various products ordered via PayPal, Inc. (“PayPal”) to Defendants’ respective PayPal accounts, as identified on Schedule “A” hereto.4 (See id.) Additionally, Invisible captured the PayPal Merchant Identification Numbers (“Merchant IDs”) identified as part of the source code and

account data for these Defendants.

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