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Parties Involved:
Allstar Marketing Group, LLC
Plaintiff
Wesley Sims
Defendant
TVWebConcepts, LLC
Defendant

Document Text:

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document as it is filed in the court’s record.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

ALLSTAR MARKETING GROUP,

LLC,

Plaintiff,

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TVWEBCONCEPTS, LLC, and 

WESLEY SIMS,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 2:09-CV-0775-SLB

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS

This case is before the court on plaintiff’s Materials in Support of Motion for

Entry of Default Judgment, which the court deems to be plaintiff’s renewed Motion for

Entry of Default. (Doc. 9.) Pursuant to Rule 55, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the 1

court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law:

1. Plaintiff properly served the Summons and Complaint upon defendants on 

April 23, 2009. (Doc. 9, Ex. D ¶¶ 3-4.) To date, defendants have failed to appear, plead,

or otherwise defend.

2. The Affidavit of Conrad Anderson, IV, plaintiff’s counsel, states, that neither

defendant is an infant or an incompetent person. (Doc. 9, Ex. D ¶ 7.) 

3. In their well-pleaded Complaint, plaintiff alleges that defendants repeatedly,

FILED

 2010 Jan-04 PM 04:34

U.S. DISTRICT COURT

N.D. OF ALABAMA

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Decisions of the former Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rendered prior to October 1, 2

1981, constitute binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit. Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661

F.2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir.1981) (en banc).

Plaintiff claims three times its known damages of $17,970 resulting from defendants’

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infringing conduct, which is $53,910, plus $100,000, the maximum statutory damages, for

defendants’ registration of the domain name “tvsnuggies.com.” 

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persistently, and intentionally infringed on plaintiff’s intellectual property rights,

including the SNUGGIE mark and the AQUA GLOBE mark in violation of 15 U.S.C. §§

1114, 1117, 1125(a), (c)-(d), and Alabama common-law trademark infringement, and

Ala. Code. § 8-12-17. Because defendants have failed to defend against these allegations

and are in default, the court finds that they have admitted such facts and their liability is

established. See Nishimatsu Const. Co., Ltd. v. Houston Nat. Bank, 515 F.2d 1200, 1206

(5th Cir. 1975), cited in Cotton v. Massachusetts Mut. Life Ins. Co., 402 F.3d 1267, 1278 2

(11th Cir. 2005).

4. Plaintiff claims $153,910.00 in damages. Plaintiff also claims $21,701.50 in 3

attorneys’ fees and $1,003.88, as costs. A judgment in favor of plaintiff and against

defendants for the sum total of $176,615.38 will be entered contemporaneously with these

Findings and Conclusions.

The Clerk of the Court is DIRECTED to serve defendants with a copy of these

Findings and Conclusions at the following addresses:

TVWebConcepts, LLC

2225 5th Street NE

Birmingham, AL 35215

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Wesley Sims

5731 Blanford Street

Birmingham, AL 35210

DONE this 4th day of January, 2010.

 

SHARON LOVELACE BLACKBURN

CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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