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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 THOMAS M REILLY, Case No. 21-cv-04601-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION TO DISMISS

APPLE INC., Docket No. 24 Defendant.

12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Thomas M. Reilly, the developer of an app called Konverti which facilitates peer- to-peer, in-person currency exchanges, alleges antitrust violations and unfair and anticompetitive conduct by Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) through its monopolist operation of its App Store. Docket No. 1 (“Compl.”). Plaintiff’s app was allegedly approved and then abruptly removed by Apple from the App Store in 2017. Id. ¶ 7. In this action, Plaintiff seeks damages and injunctive relief to restore the Konverti app to the App Store and to alter Apple’s operation of the App Store. Now pending is Apple’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s complaint. Docket No. 24. For the reasons explained below, the Court GRANTS Apple’s motion to…