Russian Web Search Engine Sued in U.S.

A controlling stockholder of Yandex, Russia's biggest Internet search engine, has filed a petition with the United States District Court for the Northern Districtof California to dismiss a lawsuit claiming Yandex's breach of intellectual property rights. Perfect 10, an American erotic photo publisher, and the owner of an adult site, filed a suit against Yandex in late March for the violation of copyright law. Perfect 10 maintains that registered Yandex N.V. domain names yandex.com, yandex.ru, yandex.st, yandex.net publish pictures belonging to Perfect 10's core business. The defendant seeks to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the U.S. Court lacks personal jurisdiction over Yandex.

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