Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367 (S.D.N.Y. June 23, 2010)
This case relates to an online seller of Gucci counterfeit goods called TheBagAddiction.com, run by Laurette. Gucci already successfully shut down the counterfeit website, but it remains on the warpath, looking to nail more defendants. It has sued three additional companies, Durango, Frontline and Woodforest. Durango helps hard-to-service merchants such as TheBagAddiction and other sellers of "replica products" find payment service providers. Frontline and Woodforest are both payment service providers that service Visa, Mastercard and AmEx (Frontline also services Discover). Thus, in this action, Gucci is chasing the payment service providers who helped the counterfeit site get paid. In this respect, the case is analogous to Perfect 10's suits against ccBill and Visa, except that Gucci is proceeding on a trademark claim and not copyright.
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