Carroll
Carroll v. The J.M. Smucker Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
KEITH CARROLL and REBEKA
RODRIGUEZ,
No. C 22-08952 WHA Plaintiffs,
v.
ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS THE J.M. SMUCKER COMPANY, and DOES 1–25, Defendants.
16 INTRODUCTION This putative class action asserts that defendant website owner violated the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) — enacted to prohibit the wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records — by implementing data tracking technology on its website, which collects information about website visitors such as plaintiffs. Defendant moves to dismiss for both lack of personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim. On the former basis only, defendant’s motion is GRANTED. STATEMENT Defendant J.M. Smucker Company is an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Orville, Ohio, and it owns and operates the website www.folgerscoffee.com for its Folgers…