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Court Applies Calder Effects Test in Typosquatting Case

E-Commerce Law:  “The Plaintiff, Weather Underground, Inc. (‘Weather Underground’), is a commercial weather services that indexes information provided to it by multiple weather stations and generates revenue from subscriptions and advertisements.   The primary Defendant, Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc. (‘NCS’), is a domain name holding company which acquires generic and descriptive domain names in bulk.   After registering domain names through a subsidiary, who was a also a Defendant, NCS submitted the domain names to another subsidiary and Defendant which created automatically-generated Web pages based on the domain name text.  These Web pages contained hyperlinks to third-party pay-per-click advertisers. Accordingly to the Complaint, the links redirected users to competitors of the Plaintiff.”

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