Judge Blumenfeld Jr. had no trouble denying the motions to dismiss filed by SXJT, “of whichMiniMax is a division or subsidiary, along with their affiliate and/or agent,” and Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., “which operates at the direction and under the control of MiniMax.”
The court found it had personal jurisdiction over SXJT and the complaint sufficiently alleged direct and secondary liability based on the alleged use of the plaintiffs’ copyrighted characters and content to train Minimax and the outputs of Minimax.
The court even included in the opinion one of the examples of alleged output infringement involving Disneyt’s R2-D2 and C-3PO characters as alleged in the Complaint:
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