A&M Records, Inc. v. John Lamonte

MEMORANDUM

John Lamonte and Creative Sounds, Ltd. appeal the district court’s judgment of contempt entered against them and their counsel. The district court found appellants in contempt of an Amended Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction entered following the settlement of a copyright infringement action brought by A&M Records, Inc., and other music companies. Lamonte and Creative Sounds appeal the entry of the Second Amended Judgment and Permanent Injunction and the judgment of contempt. We affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the facts and procedural history, we need not recount it here.

We review a district court’s civil contempt order under the deferential abuse of discretion standard. Irwin v. Mascott, 370 F.3d 924, 931 (9th Cir.2004); Hook v. Ariz. Dep’t of Corr., 107 F.3d 1397 , 1403 (9th Cir.1997). We review the district court’s underlying factual findings for clear error. Irwin, 370 F.3d at 924 . We will not reverse the order of contempt unless we have “a definite and firm conviction that the district court committed a clear error of judgment after weighing the relevant factors.” In re Dual-Deck Video Cassette Recorder Antitrust Lit., 10 F.3d 693, 695 (9th…