Adlife Marketing & Communications Company, Inc. v. Popsugar Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

ADLIFE MARKETING & Case No. 19-CV-00297-LHK

COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC.,

13 ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S Plaintiff,

MOTION TO DISMISS WITH

PREJUDICE

v. Re: Dkt. No.

POPSUGAR, INC.,

16 Defendant. 17 Before the Court is Plaintiff Adlife Marketing & Communications Company, Inc.’s (“Plaintiff”) motion to dismiss with prejudice Plaintiff’s own complaint alleging copyright infringement against Defendant Popsugar, Inc. (“Defendant”). ECF No. 45-1 (“Mot.”); see also ECF No. 1 (“Compl.”). For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice. I. INTRODUCTION On November 25, 2018, Plaintiff filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleged that Defendant infringed Plaintiff’s copyright to a “photograph of fish tacos.” Compl. ¶ 1. Plaintiff allegedly acquired this photograph in a “large portfolio” of photographs from…