UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 FACEBOOK, INC., Case No. 20-cv-07182-JCS
Plaintiff, ORDER REGARDING MOTION FOR
LEAVE TO AMEND AND MOTION TO
v. DISMISS SECOND AMENDED
COUNTERCLAIMS
BRANDTOTAL LTD., et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 161, 169 Defendants.
I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Facebook, Inc. brought this action asserting that Defendants BrandTotal Ltd. and Unimania, Inc. (collectively, “BrandTotal”) improperly collected data from Facebook’s social networks. BrandTotal, which is in the business of analyzing advertising data collected from social media websites, asserts counterclaims based on Facebook’s efforts to block its collection of data. The Court previously dismissed some of BrandTotal’s counterclaims, including a counterclaim under the “unfair” prong of California’s Unfair Competition Law (the “UCL”), which the Court dismissed with leave to amend. BrandTotal has amended that counterclaim and seeks leave to assert a new counterclaim for defamation. …