HorizonMatrix

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 8 ASTRAL IP ENTERPRISE LTD., Case No. 5:24-cv-07428-EJD

9 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

ELECTRONIC SERVICE OF PROCESS

10 v.

11 HORIZONMATRIX, Re: ECF No. 17 Defendant. 12

13 Plaintiff Astral IP Enterprise Ltd. brings this action against Defendant HorizonMatrix for 14 copyright infringement and violation of California’s unfair competition law. Compl., ECF No. 1. 15 Plaintiff alleges that Defendant took copyrighted fitness images from Plaintiff’s mobile 16 application on the Google Play store and used them in Defendant’s own competing mobile 17 applications. Id. ¶¶ 39–47. Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for an order authorizing 18 electronic service of process. Mot., ECF No. 17. 19 Rule 4 permits courts to authorize service of process on an individual outside of any 20 judicial district of the United States “by . . . means not prohibited by international agreement as 21 may be directed by the court.” Fed. R.…