United States Second Circuit

In a suit to determine whether plaintiff-exchange can enforce a copyright in the settlement prices it produces to value customers' open positions on futures contracts, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) the merger doctrine applies such that enforcing the copyright on the prices here would effectively accord protection to the idea itself; and 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over defendant's state law claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2007
• Published 09/07/2007

Judges

• Before: KATZMANN, WESLEY, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Herbert C. Ross, Jr., Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, New York, NY;  Martin I. Kaminsky, Edward T. McDermott, Pollack & Kaminsky, New York, NY;  Shepard Goldfein, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant., Richard H. Klapper, Bradley P. Smith, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY;  Stephen D. Susman, Shawn L. Raymond, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee., Nicole Gueron, Sarah S. Normand, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel, for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Amicus Curia United States of America in support of Defendant-Appellee IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.