Legal Environment of Business 8th Edition by Henry Cheeseman

Exercise 2

Service of Process Facebook, Inc. filed a com­plaint in the U.S. district court against numerous de­fendants alleging that the named defendants engaged in trademark infringement, cybersquatting, and false des­ignation of origin. Facebook seeks to enjoin the defen­dants from engaging in typosquatting schemes whereby the defendants register Internet domain names that are confusingly similar to facebook.com (e.g., facebock. com); thus, potential users of Facebook's website who enter a typographical error are diverted to the types-quatter's website, which is designed to look strikingly similar in appearance to Facebook's website, to trick users into thinking that they are using Facebook's web­site. Facebook served all of the defendants except 14, who Facebook has not been able to serve personally, by mail, or by telephone. Facebook made a motion to the U.S. district court to be permitted to serve these defendants by sending an e-mail notice to the defen­dants' websites. May Facebook use alternative service of process by sending e-mail notices to the defen­dants' websites? Facebook, Inc. v. Banana Ads LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist. Lexis 65834 (2013) (United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 2012)