In re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation

*925 ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S . MOTION TO DISMISS

Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) operates an online “social network” that permits its members to interact with each other through a website — www.facebook.com. Id. at ¶ 9. This consolidated, multi-district lawsuit against the social network, brought by and on behalf of individuals with active Facebook accounts from May 27, 2010, through September 26, 2011 (the “Class Period”), seeks “in excess of $15 billion in damages and injunctive relief’ and “arises from Facebook’s knowing interception of users’ internet communications and activity after logging out of their Facebook accounts.” See Corrected First Am. Consolidated Class Action Compl. (“CCAC”), Docket Item No. 35, at ¶ 1. Plaintiffs Perrin Davis, Cynthia Quinn, Brian Lentz, and Matthew Vickery (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), each of whom had an active Face-book account during the entire Class Period, allege that Facebook tracked and stored their post-logout internet usage using small text files — or “cookies” — which Facebook had embedded in their computers’ browsers. Id. at ¶¶ 103-106.

Federal jurisdiction arises pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1332(d). Presently *926 before the…