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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1114 Trademark Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHANEL, INC.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

XIUYIN LIN, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 09-04996 SI

ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND

RECOMMENDATION AND GRANTING

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR FINAL

DEFAULT JUDGMENT

Plaintiff Chanel, Inc. filed this action on October 20, 2009, alleging that defendants Xiuyin Lin,

Shiguan Wang, and Zhongxioubin, a/k/a Joey Van, Kevin Nakamura, and Kevin Northrop, infringed

and plaintiff’s trademarks and engaged in false designation of origin by operating websites selling

counterfeit Chanel products, including handbags, wallets, belts, key chains, shoes, boots, jewelry, and

watches.

Defendants failed to answer the complaint or otherwise appear in this action, and default was

entered on January 7, 2010. On February 22, 2010, plaintiff filed a motion for default judgment. After

holding a hearing on the motion on April 16, 2010 and receiving supplemental briefing from plaintiff

regarding the court’s authority to enter the requested relief, Magistrate Judge Spero issued a Report and

Recommendation on May 7, 2010, recommending that plaintiff’s motion be granted. The matter was

subsequently reassigned to this Court.

The Court has reviewed the Report and Recommendation. The Court hereby ADOPTS the

Report and Recommendation in full and GRANTS plaintiff’s motion for default judgment. (Docket

Nos. 51, 26). The Court orders that default judgment be entered in favor of plaintiff and against

defendants as follows:

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(1) Permanent injunctive relief

Defendants and their respective officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and all

persons in active concert and participation with them are hereby restrained and enjoined from:

(a) manufacturing or causing to be manufactured, importing,

advertising, or promoting, distributing, selling or offering to sell

counterfeit and infringing goods using the Chanel Marks;

(b) using the Chanel Marks in connection with the sale of any

unauthorized goods;

(c) using any logo, and/or layout which may be calculated to falsely

advertise the services or products of Defendants,

copiedhandbags.com, copyhandbagstore.com, designershoes.bz,

buytiffany.com, new-fashion.org, new-fashionshow.com,

urbannity.com, watchesinshop.com, knockoffpurses.in, replicahandbags.biz, replicahandbags.in, replica-watches.cc,

replicarolex.in, watch-city.net, watchreplica.com, louisvuitton.bz, and breitlingreplica.biz, and/or any other website or

business, as being sponsored by, authorized by, endorsed by, or

in any way associated with Chanel;

(d) engaging in any act which is likely to falsely cause members of

the trade and/or of the purchasing public to believe any goods or

services of Defendants, copiedhandbags.com,

copyhandbagstore.com, designershoes.bz, buytiffany.com, newfashion.org, new-fashionshow.com, urbannity.com,

watchesinshop.com, knockoffpurses.in, replica-handbags.biz,

replicahandbags.in, replica-watches.cc, replicarolex.in, watchcity.net, watch-replica.com, louis-vuitton.bz, breitlingreplica.biz,

and/or any other website or business, are in any way endorsed by,

approved by, and/or associated with Chanel;

(e) using any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation

of the Chanel Marks in connection with the publicity, promotion,

sale, or advertising of any goods sold by Defendants,

copiedhandbags.com, copyhandbagstore.com, designershoes.bz,

buytiffany.com, new-fashion.org, new-fashionshow.com,

urbannity.com, watchesinshop.com, knockoffpurses.in, replicahandbags.biz, replicahandbags.in, replica-watches.cc,

replicarolex.in, watch-city.net, watch-replica.com, louisvuitton.

bz, breitlingreplica.biz, and/or any other website or business,

including, without limitation, handbags, wallets, belts, key

chains, shoes, boots, jewelry, and/or watches;

(f) affixing, applying, annexing or using in connection with the sale

of any goods, a false description or representation, including

words or other symbols tending to falsely describe or represent

goods by Defendants, copiedhandbags.com,

copyhandbagstore.com, designershoes.bz, buytiffany.com, newfashion.org, newfashionshow. com, urbannity.com,

watchesinshop.com, knockoffpurses.in, replicahandbags.biz,

replicahandbags.in, replica-watches.cc, replicarolex.in, watchcity.net, watch-replica.com, louis-vuitton.bz, breitlingreplica.biz,

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and/or any other website or business, as being those of Chanel or

in any way endorsed by Chanel;

(g) offering such goods in commerce; 

(h) otherwise unfairly competing with Chanel.

(I) secreting, destroying, altering, removing, or otherwise dealing

with the unauthorized products or any books or records which

contain any information relating to the importing, manufacturing,

producing, distribution, circulating, selling, marketing, offering

for sale, advertising, promoting, renting or displaying of all

unauthorized products which infringe the Chanel Marks; and

(j) effecting assignments or transfers, forming new entities or

associations or utilizing any other device for the purpose of

circumventing or otherwise avoiding the prohibitions set forth

above.

(2) Additional equitable relief

(k) In order to give practical effect to the Permanent Injunction, the

domain names copiedhandbags.com, copyhandbagstore.com,

designershoes.bz, buytiffany.com, new-fashion.org, newfashionshow.com, urbannity.com, watchesinshop.com,

knockoffpurses.in, replica-handbags.biz, replicahandbags.in,

replica-watches.cc, replicarolex.in, watch-city.net, watchreplica.com, louis-vuitton.bz, and breitlingreplica.biz are hereby

ordered to be immediately transferred by Defendants, their

assignees and/or successors in interest or title to Plaintiff’s

control. To the extent the current Registrars do not facilitate the

transfer of the domain names to Plaintiff’s control within ten (10)

days of receipt of this judgment, the Registries and/or their agents

shall, within thirty (30) days, transfer the domain names to a

United States based Registrar of Plaintiff’s choosing, and that

Registrar shall transfer the domain names to Plaintiff; and

(l) Upon Plaintiff’s request, the top level domain (TLD) Registries

for the Subject Domain Names, within thirty (30) days of receipt

of this Order shall place the Subject Domain Names on Registry

Hold status, thus removing them from the TLD zone files

maintained by the Registries which link the Subject Domain

Names to the IP address where the associated websites are

hosted.

(3) Statutory damages: $456,000.00.

(4) Costs of suit: $700.00.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 21, 2010 SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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