Opinion ID: 807913
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Parties Bound

Text: Next, DFS argues that the district court’s temporary restraining order was impermissibly broad, going beyond Rule 65(d)(2)’s directive that the order may bind only parties, the parties’ officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and “other persons who are in active concert or participation with [the foregoing persons].” By its terms, the TRO bound not only DFS and its various categories of agents, but also DFS’s “distributors, dealers, and all persons in active concert or participation with any of them.” DFS’s argument runs headlong into our precedent, which holds that the district court has broad authority under Rule 65 to enjoin third parties who receive appropriate notice of the court’s injunctive order. “Nonparties who reside outside the territorial jurisdiction of a district court may be subject to that court’s jurisdiction if, with actual notice of the court’s order, they actively aid and abet a party in violating that order. This is so despite the absence of other contacts with the forum. Jurisdiction over persons who knowingly violate a court’s injunctive order, even those without any other contact with the forum, is necessary to the proper enforcement and supervision of a court’s injunctive authority and offends no precept of due process.” SEC v. Homa, 514 F.3d 661, 67475 (7th Cir. 2008) (internal quotations omitted). Given Nos. 11-3618, 11-3838 and 12-1280 31 the district court’s familiarity with these parties and their dispute, we defer to its discretionary judgment that the broad language it used was necessary to give effect to its order. Should any non-party believe that it has been enjoined improperly, it is free to seek a modification or clarification from the district court, which might be able to consider whether, for example, a dealer or distributor would qualify as an agent of DFS. At this juncture, however, and without any showing that the rights of any non-party have been infringed, DFS’s argument fails.