Burgess
Anlin Industries, Inc. v. Burgess
Opinion
lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
Defendant-Appellant Paul Burgess (“Burgess”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Plaintiff-Appellee Anlin Industries, Inc. (“Anlin”) on its two claims under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 1292(a)(1). We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. See Bosley Med. Inst., Inc. v. Kremer, 403 F.3d 672, 675-76 (9th Cir. 2005). We reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this memorandum.
The facts of the case are known to the parties and we do not repeat them here.
Burgess argues that he lacked a bad faith intent to profit when he continued to use the “www.anlinwindows.com” domain name over Anlin’s objections. Anlin argues that Burgess willfully infringed Anlin’s marks after Anlin revoked its consent and that this infringement translated into a bad faith intent to profit under the ACPA. Determining bad faith intent to profit using the nine statutory factors and the “unique circumstances of the ease” is fact dependent. See 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (d)(l)(B)(i); Interstellar Starship Servs., Ltd. v. Epix, Inc., 304 F.3d 936 , 946-47 (9th…