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COMPLAINT - 1 Civil Action No. 14-cv-1581 SIGN-6-0003P01 CMP UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON SIGNATOURS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. PHYLLIS HARTFORD dba Mountain View Properties, Defendant. Civil Action No. 14-cv-1581 COMPLAINT FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT JURY TRIAL REQUESTED Plaintiff Signatours Corporation hereby alleges the following causes of action against Defendant: I. P ARTIES 1. Signatours Corporation (“Signatours”) is a Washington corporation having a place of business in Seattle, Washington. 2. Defendant Phyllis Hartford is an individual believed to have a place of residence at 62218 Mountain Beaver Way E, Enumclaw, WA 98022. Defendant is believed to do business as Mountain View Properties. Case 2:14-cv-01581-RSM Document 1 Filed 10/14/14 Page 1 of 4 COMPLAINT - 2 Civil Action No. 14-cv-1581 SIGN-6-0003P01 CMP II. J URISDICTION AND V ENUE 3. This action arises under the copyright laws of the United States of America, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq . Jurisdiction over the copyright claims is conferred upon this Court by 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338. 4. Venue is proper in this Court pursuant to 28 USC §§ 1391(b) and (c) and 1400(a). Defendant resides in, has transacted business in and has had continuous and systematic contacts with the Western District of Washington. A substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claims occurred in this District. III. S IGNATOURS ’ B USINESS AND C OPYRIGHTS 5. Signatours authors and is the owner of non-stock, high-dynamic range (HDR), commercial photographs of inns, resorts and vacation rental properties. These photographs are typically licensed to management companies for use in marketing and rental of the properties. Signatours is the copyright owner of such high quality photographs to the vacation rental property referred to as the “Crystal River Ranch Property” (hereinafter “Crystal River photographs”). Signatours secured federal copyright protection of these photographs under U.S. Copyright Registration Nos. VAu001055316, effective January 10, 2011. 6. Without the permission of Signatours, Defendant has copied and published multiple Signatours Crystal River photographs in their rental marketing materials on Internet vacation rental websites such as crystalmountaincabinsandhomess.com and northwestidx.com . On information and belief, Defendant widely distributed and publicly displayed Signatours’ Crystal River photographs. Defendant used Signatours’ copyrighted photographs for the purpose of marketing and/or renting the property for commercial gain. 7. Defendant has at all relevant times been aware of Signatours’ copyrighted photographs. Defendant has no license from Signatours and despite notice of her wrongful activities Defendant deliberately and willfully infringed Signatours’ copyrights. Case 2:14-cv-01581-RSM Document 1 Filed 10/14/14 Page 2 of 4 COMPLAINT - 3 Civil Action No. 14-cv-1581 SIGN-6-0003P01 CMP IV. C AUSE OF A CTION —C OPYRIGHT I NFRINGEMENT 8. Signatours realleges the preceding paragraphs of this complaint. 9. By copying, modifying and creating one or more derivative works and/or displaying and distributing Signatours’ Crystal River photographs, Defendant’s actions constitute copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. 10. Defendant has facilitated possible infringement of others by failing to display Signatours’ work with a credit and copyright notice attached and by publishing the Crystal River photographs on the Internet. 11. Defendant has profited from unauthorized use of Signatours’ copyrighted work. 12. Defendant had access to Signatours’ copyrighted materials and knowledge of Signatours’ ownership rights in the Crystal River photographs and her infringing activities were deliberate, knowing, willful, and malicious, and were designed to provide Defendant with an economic advantage over Signatours or benefit at Signatours’ expense. As a result of Defendant’s willfully infringing acts, Signatours has been injured and has suffered damages in an amount to be proved at trial. 13. Signatours claims remedies to which it may be entitled by law, including Defendant’s revenues and profits pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 504(b); at Signatours’ election and in the alternative, actual damages or statutory damages up to $150,000 per infringement pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 504(c); injunctive relief pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 502; impounding and destruction of infringing articles pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 503; and attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 505 and otherwise allowed by law. V. P RAYER FOR R ELIEF WHEREFORE, Signatours prays for the following alternative and cumulative relief: A. An order preliminarily and permanently enjoining Defendant and all persons in active concert or participation therewith from copying or creating derivative works based on Signatours’ copyrights; Case 2:14-cv-01581-RSM Document 1 Filed 10/14/14 Page 3 of 4 COMPLAINT - 4 Civil Action No. 14-cv-1581 SIGN-6-0003P01 CMP B. An order, as specifically provided by 17 U.S.C. § 503 and other applicable law, for seizure to recover, impound, and destroy all things infringing Signatours’ copyrighted materials, including any video, written, or digitally maintained materials Defendant may possess or have under her control, or under the control of any of Defendant’s respective officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, or any other person acting in concert or participation with Defendant; C. An order requiring Defendant to file with this Court and serve on Signatours, within 30 days of service of this order, a report in writing under oath setting forth in detail the manner and form in which Defendant has complied with the terms of the ordered relief; D. Damages in an amount sufficient to compensate Signatours for all injury sustained as a result of Defendant’s wrongful activities, including wrongful profits of Defendant, as provided under applicable law; E. Treble the amount of damages recovered by Signatours or other exemplary damages and all of its litigation expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, as provided under applicable law; and F. Such other and further relief as the Court may deem just. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 14 th day of October, 2014. s/David A. Lowe, WSBA No. 24,453 Lowe@LoweGrahamJones.com L OWE G RAHAM J ONES PLLC 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4800 Seattle, WA 98104 T: 206.381.3300 F: 206.381.3301 Attorneys for Signatours Corporation Case 2:14-cv-01581-RSM Document 1 Filed 10/14/14 Page 4 of 4
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