Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2011-0703
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 17:55:14+00:00

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The Complainant is Comerica Incorporated of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America represented internally.
The Respondents are Domains By Proxy Inc. and Web Services Pty of Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America and New Delhi, India, respectively.
The disputed domain name <comericawebbbanking.com> is registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc.
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on April 26, 2011. On April 26, 2011, the Center transmitted by email to GoDaddy.com, Inc a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On April 28, 2011, GoDaddy.com, Inc. transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain name which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to the Complainant on April 28, 2011 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar, and inviting the Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. The Complainant filed an amended Complaint on April 29, 2011.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on May 2, 2011. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was May 22, 2011. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent’s default on May 24, 2011.
The Center appointed Simon Minahan as the sole panelist in this matter on June 10, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
has not licensed or authorized the Respondent to use or trade by reference to the COMERCIA marks.
has made use of the disputed domain name to divert traffic to its own commercial website.
The Complainant contends that the COMERICA trade mark is a famous mark by dint of it widespread reputation and recognition in the United States of America.
The Complainant further contends that the disputed domain name, being comprised of the term “Comerica” and the descriptive words “web” and “banking”, which refer to one of the industry channels in which the trade mark is applied, is confusingly similar to its COMERICA trade mark.
It further contends that the Respondent has no right or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and has, by its conduct in registering the disputed domain name which incorporates the coined term, “Comerica”, registered it in bad faith (citing Myer Stores Ltd v David John Singh, WIPO Case No. D2001-0763 and Cellular Group One v Paul Brien, WIPO Case No. D2000-0028) and used the disputed domain name in bad faith by using it to divert traffic to its own website.
Notwithstanding that the Respondent has not replied to the claims of the Complainant, the Complainant nonetheless has the onus of making out the grounds for transfer or cancellation under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“the Policy”).
The Panel finds that the Complainant has satisfied the requirements under paragraph 4(i)(a) of the Policy and has the rights in the COMERCIA mark, as discussed above, in Section 4.
The Panel finds that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant’s various COMERICA trade marks.
Sanofi-aventis v. Elizabeth Riegel and Andrew Riegel, WIPO Case No. D2005-1045; Telstra Corporation Ltd v. Peter Lombardo, Marino Sussich and Ray Landers, WIPO Case No. D2000-1511; Pepsico Inc v. Pepsi SRL and EMS Computer Industry, WIPO Case No. D2003-0696; Pepsico Inc v. Diabetes Home care and DHC services, WIPO Case No. D2001-0174; Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v Inja, Kil, WIPO Case No. D2000-1409; America Online Inc v. Chris Hoffman, WIPO Case No. D2001-1184.
Accordingly, the Panel finds that the first element of the Policy has been satisfied.
The Complainant, in the absence of any contradictory evidence, has prima facie established that the Respondent has no right or legitimate interest in the disputed domain name, having established that the Respondent has no history of use of the “Comerica” name or any part of it, nor any registered trade marks bearing any resemblance to this name, and its use of it not being otherwise a legitimate commercial or noncommercial use.
The Panel is of the view that under Policy paragraph4(a)(ii) once the Complainant has made out a prima facie case, as it has here, the burden to establish those rights shifts to the Respondent to rebut the presumption (see e.g.: Do The Hustle, LLC v. Tropic Web, WIPO Case No. D2000-0624; Time Out Group Ltd. v. Marc Jacobson, WIPO Case No. D2001-0317).
The Respondent, not having responded to the Complaint, has not discharged the burden.
Accordingly the Panel finds the second element of the Policy satisfied.
Paragraph 4(b) (iv) of the Policy lists as one of the circumstances evidencing bad faith “by using the domain name, the Respondent has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant’s mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of its website or of a product or service on its website”. On the uncontradicted evidence of the Complainant, the Respondent has made such use of the disputed domain name and accordingly the Panel finds it has made bad faith use of the disputed domain name.
Further, the Panel accepts the Complainant’s contention that the incorporation of its coined or fanciful COMERICA trade mark in the disputed domain name is prima facie evidence of bad faith registration since it is virtually inconceivable that, in combination with the terms “web” and “banking”, that any legitimate commercial or noncommercial use could ever have been made of the such a disputed domain name, which did not infringe upon nor seek to misappropriate the Complainant’s trade mark.
Accordingly the Panel finds the third element of the Policy is satisfied.
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name, <comericawebbbanking.com> be transferred to the Complainant.

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