3Taps, Inc. v. Linkedin Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 3TAPS, INC, Case No. 18-cv-00855-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION TO DISMISS

LINKEDIN CORPORATION, Docket Nos. 76, 85, 87 Defendant.

12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Before this Court is LinkedIn. Corp.’s (“LinkedIn”) motion to dismiss 3taps, Inc.’s (“3taps”) second amended complaint (“SAC”)1 for lack of standing and/or ripeness. In the alternative, LinkedIn requests that the Court exercise its discretion and decline to entertain 3taps’s declaratory judgment claims. For the reasons below, the Court DENIES LinkedIn’s motion. II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND A. The Parties 3taps is a professional data scraper founded in San Francisco in 2009. (SAC ¶ 9.) Its business “consists of scraping data and then making data available to third party technology developers through 3taps’s online data shop,” which can be found on its website, www.3taps.com.…