Legal News: Business Law
Office Depot, Inc. v. Zuccarini (February 26, 2010)
Domain names are intangible property subject to a writ of
execution under California law and are located where the
registry is located for the purpose of asserting quasi in rem
jurisdiction.
domain names as intangible property subject to conversion
claims--to dispute over the ownership of an Internet domain
name where defendant failed to show Virginia law treated
domain name ownership differently. Even if two states treated
domain name ownership differently, case presented only a
"false conflict" where defendant, a California resident, sought to
apply Virginia law against plaintiff, a Virginia resident. District
court erred in granting summary judgment to plaintiff where the
facts underlying a determination on the quality of title and
whether plaintiff abandoned title were contested.