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govinfo:USCOURTS-flsd-1_25-cv-24712-1
IN THFZ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
CASE NO. 1:25-cv-24712-M ORENO
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TOHO CO., LTD.,
Plaintiff,
THE INDIVIDUALSSCORPORATIONS,
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIE YPARTNERSHIPS AND UNINCORPORATED
ASSOCIATIONS IDENTIFIED IN
SCHEDULE CIA'' HERETO,
Defendants.
FINAL DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND PERM ANENT INJUNCTION
THIS CAUSE comes before the Court on the Plaintiff s Motipn for Entl'y of Final Default' . . . . , . ' . ' . . .
Judgment (VCF 20) as to zgpefendants. 1 The Clerk of Court has entered a Clerk's Entry of Defaul.t
as the Defendants. None of the 29 Defendants listed on Schedule A to the Complaint have
responded to the Complaint or moved to set aside the Clerk's Default.Accordingly, the Coul't
now reviews the Plaintiff's Motion for Ently of Default Final Judgment. SûEntl'y of default
judgment is only warranted when there is Ca sufficient basis in the pleadings for the judgment
entered.''' Surtain v. Halnlin Terrace Foundation, 789 F.3d 1239, 1245 (1 1th Cir. 2015) (quoting
Nishimatsu Constr. Co. v. Houston Nat ,1 Bank, 515 F.2d 1200, 1206 (5th Cir. 1 975)). The Eleventh
Circuit added in Surtain that a default judgment may only be entered where the Complaint is
sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss. 1d. ('dconceptually, then, a motion for defaultjtldgluent
is like a reverse motion to dislriss for faiëure to state a clai1'n.'').
1 Defendant No. 6 Springstore 1 has been dismissed and is omitted from this Default Judglnent.
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The well-pled allegations of the Complaint are admitted by virtue of the Defendants'
default, The Court finds that Plaintifps Complaint (Dld. N. o. 1) adequately states a claim for frderal
copyright infringelnent and federal tradeluark infringement, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. jj l 1 14,
1 125.(a), 17 U.S.C. jj 50 1, 502, and 504(c), and The A1l Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. j 1 65 1(a). Default
judglnent against the Defendants is, therefore, appropriate.
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58(a), the Court hereby ENTERS THIS
SEPAIG TE FINAL JUDGM ENT, Accordingly, it is ORDERED and ADJUDGED that Final
Default Judgment is hereby entered in favor of the Plaintiff, TOHO CO., LTD., (skplaintiff'), and
against Dqfendants THE INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS, LIMITED LIABILITY
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COMPANIES, PARTNERSHIPS AND UNINCORPOM TED ASSOCIATIONS IDENTIFIED
IN SCHEDULE (SA'' (Attached), (the ûcDefendants'') as follows:
Permanent Iniunctive Relief
The Defendants, their officers, directors, agents, l'epresentatives, stlbsidiaries, distlibutors,
servants, employees and attorneys, and a11 persons in active concel-t or pal-ticipasion therewith are
hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from:
manufacturing or causing to be luanufactured, importing, advel-tising, or promoting,
distributing, selling or offering to sell counterfeit and infringing goods bearing and/or
using Plaintiff s CCGODZILLA'' trademarks, or any conftlsingly similar trademark, (the
tcGodzilla Trademarks''l'
b. using Plaintiff's Godzilla Trademarks in connection with the sale of any tlnauthorized
goods;
c. using any logo, and/or layout which may be calculated to falsely advel-tise the services
or products of the Defendants as being sponsored by, atlthorized by, endorsed by, or in
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any way qssociated with Plaintiff;
d. falsely repl-esenting themselves as being connected with Plaintiff, through sponsorship
or association;
e. engaging in any act which is likely to falsely cause members of the trade and/or of the
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purchasing public to believe any goods or services of the Defendants are in any way
endorsed by, approved by, and/or associated with Plaintiff;
using any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of Plaintiff s Godzilla
Trademarks in colmection with the publicity, promption, sale, pr advertising of any
goods sold, by Defepdants;
affixing, applying, annexing or using in colmection with the sale of any goodq, a false
description or l'epresentation, including words or other symbols tendipg to falsely
describe or represent goods offered for sale or sold by the Defendant as being those of
Plaintiff or in any way endorsed by Plaintiff; .
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othelavise unfairly competing with Plaintiff in connection with Plaintiff's Godzilla
Tradelnarks;
i. using Plaintiff s Godzilla Trademarks or any confusingly similar trademark, on e-
commerce marketplaces, metatags or other markers within website sotlrce code, from
use on any webpage (including as the title of any web page), from any adve/ising links
to other websites, from search engines' databases or cache memol'y, and from any other
form of use of such terms which are visible to a computer uher or serves to .direct
computer searches ttl lnternet based e-commerce stores, seller identities or domain
names registered by, owned, or operated by Defendants; and
effecting assignlnents or transfers, forming new entities or associations or utilizing any
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other device for the purpose of circtuuventing or otherwise avoiding the prohibitions
set forth above.
Using or displaying Plaintiff s federally-registel-ed, copyright-protected works (the
(tGodzilla Copyrights''), in any l'nedium, whether it be print, digital or otherwise, in
colmection with the distribution, marketing, advertising, offering for sale, or sale of
any produçt that is not a genuine Godzilla product or is not authorized by Plaintiff to be
sold in connection with Plaintiff s Godzilla Copyrights;
passing off, inducing, or enabling others to sell or pass off any product as genuine
Godzilla products or any other prodtlct produced by Plaintiff through the use or
display of Plaintiff's Godzilla Copyrights;
m. committing any acts catculated to cause consuluers to believe that the Defendants'
products are those sold under the atlthorization, control, or supervision of Plaintiff,
or are sponsored by, approved by, or otherwise colmected with Plaintiff',
luanufacturing, shipping, delivering, holding for sale, transfen-ing or otherwise
moving, storing, distributing, returning, or otherwise disposing of, in any malmer,
products or inventol-y not mantlfactured by or for Plaintiff, nor authorized by Plaintiff
to be sold or offered for sale through the use or display of Plaintiff's Godzilla
Copyrights; and
otherwise tlnfairly competing with Plaintiff in connection with Plaintiff s Godzilla
Copyrights.
Additional Equitable Relief:
Upon the Plaintiff s request, the Internet marketpléce website operators and/or
administrators for the Internet based e-commerce stores operating under the seller identification
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names identified on Schedule (CA'' hereto (the (lseller 1Ds''), including but not liluited to
AliExprcss, Alipay, Dhgate, Dhpay, Joom, Wish, Wishpay, Walmal't, Amazon, Amazon Pay,
eBay, Etsy, and/or Taobqo, shall permalnently remove any and a11 listings and associated images
of goods bearing counterfeits and/or infl-ingements of Plaintiff s Godzilla Tradelnarks and
qnauthorized copies of Plaintiff s Godzilla Copyrights via the e-commerce stores operating under
the Seller 1Ds, and any other listings and images of goods bearing cotlnterfeits and/or
infringemqnts of Plaintiff's Godzilla Trademarks and Godzilla Copyrights assqciated with the
same sellers or linked to any other alias seller identifi cation names or e-commerce stores being
used and/or controlled by the Defaulting Defendants to promote, offer for sale and/or sell goods
in colmection with Plaintiff s Godzilla Trademarks and Godzi.lla Copyrights.
3. Statutory Damazes in Favor of Plaintiff Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. j 1117(c):' . .
Award the Plaintiff daluages of $ 1 00,000.00 against each Qf the Defaulting Defendants,
for which sum 1et executioln issue, based upon the Court's finding that the Defatllting Defendants
infringed Plaintiff's Godzilla Trademarks on one type of good. The Court considered both the
willfulness of the Defaulting Defendants' conduct and the deterrent value of the award imposed,
and the awarded amount falls within the permissible statutol-y range under 15 U.S.C. j 1 1 17(c).
4. Statutorv Damaees in Favor of Plaintiff Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. k 504(c):
Award the Plaintiff damages of $100,000.00 against each of the Defaulting Defendants,
for which let sum exectltion issue, based upon the Coul-t's finding that each Defaulting Defendant
infringed on Plaintiff's Godzilla Copyrights. The Cou14 considered both the willfulness of the
Defaulting Defendants' conduct and the deterrent value of the award imposed, and the awarded
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amount falls within the permissible statutol-y range under 17 U.S.C. j 504(c)(2).
5. Disposition of Retained Funds
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A11 funds currently restrained or held on account for the Defatllting Defendants by al1
financial institutions,payment prOceSSOrS,banks, escrow services, , money transmitters, or
marketplace platforms, including bu$ not limited to Paypal and its related companies and aftiliates
are to be ilnmediately (within five (5) business days), transferred by the previously refen-ed to
financial instittltion, payment processors, banks, çscrow services, money transmitters,
marketplace platforms and by the Defaulting Defendants, to the Plaintiff and/or the Plaintiff's
cotlnsel in partial satisfaction of the monetary judgment entered herein against the Defaulting
Defendants. A11 financial institutions, payment processors, banks, escrow selwices, money
transmitters, or marltetplace platfonns, including but not limited to Paypal, and its related
companies and affiliates, shall provide to the Plaintiff at the time the funds are released, a
breakdown reflecting the (i) total funds restrained in this matter for the Defaulting Defendants', (ii)
the total chargebacks, refunds, and/or transaction reversals deducted from the Defatllting
Defendants' f'unds restrained prior to release; and (iii) the total funds released for Defaulting
Defendants to Plaintiff.
6. lnterest
lnterest from the date this action was filed shall accrue at the legal rate purstlant to 28
U.S.C. j 1961.
7. Bond
The Clerk is DIRECTED to RELEASE to Plaintiff the bond posted in this case in the
amount of $5,000.00.
Jurisdiction
The Cou14 retains J'urisdiction to enforce this Judgment and permanent injunction.
9. Closure of Case
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The Clerk is DIRECTED to CLOSE this case and DENY a11 pending motions as M OOT.
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DONE AND ORDERED in Miami, Florida this day of , 2026.
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HONORABL E> CO A. MORENO
UNITED S ES DISTRICT JUDGE
C ' .OPICS,
Counsel of Record
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