Court Opinion

ID: 2670373
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-04-18 00:01:50.200599+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:40.524688
License: Public Domain

FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             APR 17 2014

                                                                       MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRUCE MAX DAVIS, an individual;                  No. 12-55985
BLINDSIDE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, a
Delaware limited partnership; GLOBAL             DC No. 11 cv-2674 DDP
DATA REVENUE, INC.; KINMAN
GROWTH MUSIC PUBLISHING;
HEATHER AZURE KIRKBRIDE, an                      MEMORANDUM*
individual,

              Plaintiffs - Appellants,

  v.

AT&T WIRELESS SERVICES, INC., a
Delaware Corporation; Erroneously Sued
as AT&T Mobility, LLC; CELLCO
PARTNERSHIP, a New Jersey
Corporation, DBA Verizon Wireless;
SPRINT SPECTRUM LP, a Delaware
limited partnership; T-MOBILE USA,
INC.; TRACFONE WIRELESS, INC., a
Delaware Corporation,

              Defendants - Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Central District of California
                    Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
                        Argued and Submitted April 10, 2014
                               Pasadena, California

Before:       TASHIMA, N.R. SMITH, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

      Plaintiffs appeal from the district court’s judgment of dismissal. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

      1.      The district court did not err in dismissing Plaintiffs’ federal antitrust

claims. See Lacey v. Maricopa Cnty., 693 F.3d 896, 911 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc).

Plaintiffs failed to allege that Plaintiffs and Defendants are participants in the same

multimedia messaging services (“MMS”) market in which Plaintiffs’ injury

allegedly occurred. Plaintiffs therefore failed to state a claim for which relief can

be granted. See Glen Holly Entm’t Inc. v. Tektronix Inc., 352 F.3d 367, 372 (9th

Cir. 2003).

      2.      Plaintiffs waived any challenge to the dismissal of their state law

claims, because they failed to brief or argue in the district court that these claims

could survive independently of their federal antitrust claims. See Serv. Emps. Int’l

Union v. Nat’l Union of Healthcare Workers, 598 F.3d 1061, 1073 n.8 (9th Cir.

2010).

      3.      The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Plaintiffs a

third opportunity to state a claim. See Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel, 726 F.3d 1124,

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1133 (9th Cir. 2013). Plaintiffs point to no additional facts that they might allege

to save their complaint. See Metzler Inv. GMBH v. Corinthian Colls., Inc., 540
F.3d 1049, 1072 (9th Cir. 2008). Nor could they when their own pleading

affirmatively alleges that the MMS market is merely a pipeline or dedicated

conduit.

      AFFIRMED.

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