Opinion

SM Kids, LLC v. Google LLC

Court
District Court, S.D. New York
Filed
Apr 6, 2021
Cited by
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The opinion

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DOCUMENT

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ELECTRONICALLY FILED

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DOC #:

. DATE FILED:__ 4/6/2021

SM Kids, LLC, as successor-in-interest to eas BE Oo

Stelor Productions, LLC,

1:18-cv-02637 (LGS) (SDA

Plaintiff, (LGS) (

. ORDER

-against-

Google LLC et al.,

Defendants.

STEWART D. AARON, United States Magistrate Judge:

Pending before the Court are (1) Defendants’ Letter Motion to compel Plaintiff to produce

(a) reports from its Google Analytics account for the website at www.googles.com and any

comparable GoDaddy records, and (b) an unredacted discovery letter from the Ganz v. SM Kids,

18-01357 (D. Del.) (“Ganz”) case (ECF No. 236); and (2) Defendants’ Letter Motion to compel

additional discovery relating to Plaintiff's production of 16,789 files (ECF No. 238.) Defendants’

Letter Motions are GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART, as follows:

1. Plaintiff shall meet and confer with Defendants regarding the production of additional

Google Analytics and GoDaddy web traffic reports and related information in order

that Defendants may obtain relevant data and information without undue burden

being imposed upon Plaintiff.* If the parties cannot reach agreement after meeting

? Although the Court refrains from making any rulings until after the parties meet and confer, the Court

makes the following two observations: (1) it would appear that the disaggregated data and data dictionary

sought by Defendants are relevant and proportional to the needs of the case, and that Defendants

reasonably are entitled to an explanation regarding certain missing data; and (2) unless Plaintiff stipulates

that it will not introduce evidence of post-alleged breach web traffic in briefing or at trial, it would seem

that data regarding such web traffic should be produced. Plaintiff will have the opportunity to address the

foregoing observations in any joint letter submitted, as provided above.

and conferring, they shall submit a joint letter to the Court no later than April 30,

2021, so that the Court may resolve any remaining disputes.

2. No later than April 13, 2021, Plaintiff shall produce to Defendants an unredacted copy

of the discovery letter and exhibits filed by Ganz in the Ganz case. See Christine Asia

Co. v. Alibaba Grp. Holding Ltd., 327 F.R.D. 52 (S.D.N.Y. 2018).

3. No later than April 27, 2021, the deposition of Jared Lader (“Lader”) will be reopened

for a period not to exceed two hours for the limited purpose of examining him

regarding the 16,789 files that were produced after Lader’s deposition was

conducted. The deposition shall be conducted by remote means at a reasonable time

of day that is convenient to Lader, consistent with his class and work schedules.

SO ORDERED.

Dated: New York, New York

April 6, 2021

frist A, Cann

STEWART D. AARON

United States Magistrate Judge

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