United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of complaint brought under the Stored Communications Act, alleging that defendants accessed plaintiff's website's electronic bulletin board without authorization, is affirmed where the complaint fails to allege, as the SCA requires, that the website was configured to not be readily accessible by the general public. Dismissal of one defendant for lack of personal jurisdiction is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/01/2006
• Published 06/01/2006

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, WILSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Albert A. Zakarian, Lithia, FL, Robert S. Apgood, CarpeLaw, PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Snow., Cindy A. Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lauren Elizabeth Bush, Marc J. Zwillinger, Christian S. Genetski, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.