Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme Et L'Antisemitisme

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Plaintiff moves for summary judgment. Defendants oppose the motion. The Court has read the moving and responding papers and has considered the oral arguments of counsel presented on September 24, 2001. For the reasons set forth below, the motion will be granted.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Defendants La Ligue Contre Le Rac-isme Et l’Antisemitisme (“LICRA”) and L’Union Des Etudiants Juifs De France, citizens of France, are non-profit organizations dedicated to eliminating anti-Semi-tism. Plaintiff Yahoo!, Inc. (“Yahoo!”) is a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware with its principal place of business in Santa Clara, California. Yahoo! is an Internet service provider that operates various Internet websites and services that any computer user can access at the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) http://vnow.yahoo.com. Yahoo! services ending in the suffix, “.com,” without an associated country code as a prefix or extension (collectively, “YahooFs U.S. Services”) use the English language and target users who are residents of, utilize servers based in and operate under the laws of the United States. Yahoo! subsidiary corporations operate…