dotStrategy Co. v. Facebook Inc

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOTSTRATEGY, CO., Plaintiff, No. 20-00170 WHA

v.

FACEBOOK, INC., ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

CERTIFY CLASS

Defendant.

15 16 INTRODUCTION This Section 17200 putative class action centers on the intersection of fake accounts and advertising on the world’s largest social media services company. Plaintiff alleges defendant represented it would not charge plaintiff when defendant determined that a fake account clicked on plaintiff’s advertisements, but defendant has failed to refund it even after defendant removed an account from its platform because it was fake. Plaintiff now seeks to represent a class of similarly aggrieved advertisers. Because plaintiff fails to establish a presumption that class members were exposed to the allegedly misleading statements, the motion for class certification must be DENIED. STATEMENT Plaintiff dotStrategy, Co., a for-profit…