MEMORANDUM AND ORDER In this lawsuit, plaintiff Twin Beauty LLC brings various claims challenging defendants’ filing of complaints with Amazon asserting that several origami books being sold by plaintiff infringed defendants’ copyright. As a result of defendants’ complaints, Amazon delisted plaintiff’s purportedly infringing origami books. Plaintiff has moved for a preliminary injunction under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65 against defendants NR Interactive LLC and Nir Rodriguez (i) ordering defendants to withdraw their copyright complaints against plaintiff’s Amazon listings and (ii) enjoining defendants from submitting future complaints against plaintiff’s Amazon listings based on defendants’ allegedly fraudulently obtained copyright. Plaintiff also seeks a restraint on defendants’ assets. Because plaintiff has not established that the defendants — neither of whom are New York residents — are subject to the Court’s personal jurisdiction, plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction is denied. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Twin Beauty LLC is organized and maintains its principal place of business in New York. Compl. 2 (Dkt. #1); Decl. of Joshua Farkas 4 (Dkt. #13). It is managed by a single member, non-party Joshua Farkas, who resides in New York. Compl. 3; Decl. of Joshua Farkas 2. In its complaint, plaintiff alleged that defendant NR Interactive LLC is organized and maintains its principal place of business in Florida, and that it is managed by a single member, defendant Nir Rodriguez, who also resides in Florida. Compl.
4-6. During the course of effecting service, however, plaintiff has come to believe that defendant Rodriguez actually resides in Japan. See Decl. of Michael Steinmetz 8 (Dkt. #12); see also Def. Rodriguez’s Mem. of L. in Opp’n to Pl.’s Mot. for Prelim. Inj. (“Def. Rodriguez’s Opp’n”) 6-7 (Dkt. #20) (stating that defendant Rodriguez resides in Japan). In 2019, plaintiff commissioned and began selling on Amazon a handbook containing step-by-step instructions and illustrations on how to make common origami models, like animals and houses. Compl.
