Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

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CUMULUS MEDIA NEW HOLDINGS INC., :

Plaintiff, :

: 25-CV-08581 (JAV)

-v- :

: ORDER GRANTING

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US) LLC, : MOTION TO SEAL

Defendant. :

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JEANNETTE A. VARGAS, United States District Judge:

Plaintiff Cumulus Media New Holdings Inc. (“Cumulus”) moves to seal limited portions of

its Memorandum of Law in Support of its Motion to Dismiss, filed on March 4, 2026, that disclose

terms of its 2023 Service Agreement (“Agreement”) with Defendant and Counterclaim-Plaintiff The

Nielsen Company (US) LLC (“Nielsen”). ECF Nos. 170-171. The Agreement has been designated

confidential under the parties’ protective order, ECF No. 52, and the Court has previously granted

Nielsen’s motion to seal portions of its Answer containing the Agreement’s terms, see, e.g., ECF

No. 164, after determining the requested redactions qualified as “confidential business

information.” Standard Inv. Chartered, Inc. v. Fin. Indus. Regul. Auth., Ind., 347 F. App’x 615,

617 (2d Cir. 2009).

Accordingly, Cumulus’s motion is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is directed to terminate

ECF No. 170.

SO ORDERED. -

Dated: March 6, 2026 LOUWMAAL VV GAD

New York, New York JEANNETTE A. VARGAS

‘United States District Judge