Friedman

SUPPLEMENTAL RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA ANTI-SLAPP STATUTE

I. INTRODUCTION

On June 29, 2015, this Court issued a partial ruling on the -Special Motion To Strike Complaint Pursuant To The California Anti-SLAPP Statute, California Civil Procedure § 425,16 (“Motion”), filed by Defendants DirecTV and DirecTV Holdings, LLC (collectively “DirecTV”). The Court will not repeat the Introduction to that ruling but incorporates it here. As noted in the June 29,2015 Order, Plaintiffs Stephen Friedman and FSZ Media, LLC, did not have any opportunity to file a brief in response to DirecTV’s late presented argument that Plaintiffs’ breach of confidence claim must fail because Plaintiffs’ ideas allegedly used in Fantasy Zone lack novelty. Plaintiffs were permitted to file a Second Supplemental Brief on novelty, which they did on July 10, 2015. DirecTV filed a Supplemental Reply-Brief on June 17, 2015.

■ The Court concludes that DirecTV has met its burden to establish that Plaintiffs’ breach of implied contract, breach of confidence, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation claims arise from an act in furtherance of DirecTV’s right of free…