Kalantari v. Nitv, Inc.

352 F.3d 1202 Masood KALANTARI, an individual and a California resident, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NITV, INC., a California corporation d/b/a/National Iranian TV; Zia Atabay, a/k/a Zia Atabai, an individual; Parvin Atabay, a/k/a Parvin Atabai, an individual; Lobecast North America, Inc., a Delaware corporation; and Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-56592. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 3, 2003 — Pasadena, California. Filed December 12, 2003. Ali Kamarei, Palo Alto, California, for the plaintiff-appellant. Martin N. Refkin, Gallagher & Gallagher, PC, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-05447-PA. Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges. OPINION GRABER, Circuit Judge. 1 In this copyright infringement case, we are called on to decide whether the Iranian trade embargo, see 31 C.F.R. Part 560, prohibits the commercial importation of movies from Iran, the copyright of such movies, or the assignment to a "United States person" of…