Free Motion in Limine - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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1 Joel L. Herz, Esq.
2 State Bar No. 015105
Law Offices of Joel L. Hem
3 3573 East Sunrise Drive, Suite 215
Tucson, AZ 85718
4 Telephone: 520-529-8080
5 F acsirnile: 520-529-8077
6 Ira S. Sacks, Esq.
Satia A. Anand, Esq. p -
7 Dreier LLP
8 499 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
9 Telephone: 212-328-6100
10 Facsimile: 212-328-6101 g
11 · Attorneys for Defendants
FUBU The Collection, LLC and
12 GTFM of Orlando, LLC d/b/a
13 FUBU Company Store and GTFM, LLC
14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
15 DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
16 MEADOWLARK LEMON, a married man )
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17 Plaintiff,
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i vs. ) Case No. CV 04—l023—PGX—DGC
19 ) Consolidated with
HARLEM GLOBETROT'I`ERS ) Case No. CV 04-0299 PI·lX-DGC
20 n~rranNAr1oNAL, mc., an Arizona )
21 Corporation; HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS )
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC., an ) DECLARATION OF
22 Arizona Corporation; MANNIE L. JACKSON ) LAWRENCE BLENDEN ~
23 and CATHERINE JACKSON, husband and )
wife; FUBU THE COLLECTION, LLC, a )
24 New York limited liability company doing )
business in Arizona; GTFM, LLC, a New York Q
25 limited liability company doing business in )
2 6 Arizona; )
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27 Defendants.
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2 IQHARLEM GLOBETROTTERS
E, INTERNATIONAL, INC., an Arizona )
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1.0 LAWRENCE BLENDEN declares as follows under penalty of perjury
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11 Pursuant to 28 u.s.c. § 1746
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,13 ll 1 I am General Counsel of GTFM, LLC and GTFM, Inc.
14 2. FUBU The Collection, LLC is merely a shareholder of GTFM, Inc.
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15 il and member of GTFM, LLC, and does not otherwise do business in Arizona or
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16 1 elsewhere. FUBU The Collection, LLC does not manufacture, advertise or sell FUBU
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19 likenesses or names of any of the plaintiffs in the above-referenced actions.
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20 4. FUBU The Collection, LLC has never licensed, developed, created,
121 i produced, manufactured, promoted, sold, distributed, and/or exploited any products
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1 5. GTFM, Inc. owns all of the trademarks using the word FUBU, of i
2 which there are many. Attached hereto as Exhibit A are examples of certain of those
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4 marks from the USPTO website.
5 6. GTFM, Inc. and GTFM, LLC both use the phrase "FUBU The
6 Collection" as a common law trademark and as a means to identify the collection of
7e apparel and other products distributed and marketed under the FUBU trademark. ‘
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9 I 7. FUBU The Collection, LLC does not use "FUBU The Collection" as
10 a tradename and products with such labels are marketed by GTF M, LLC (and its
11 sublicensees), and not FUBU The Collection, LLC.
12 V I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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