An invasion of privacy claim involving the alleged interception and transmission of a Washington state woman's emails and communications by a company in Pennsylvania — via a "spy" program on a rent-to-own computer — cannot be dismissed based on lack of jurisdiction, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled.
In the proposed class action Arrington v. ColorTyme, U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon of the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that a motion to dismiss made by CMG Rentals LLC, a franchisee of ColorTyme Inc., should be denied because the allegedly intercepted communications were transmitted to the now-defunct company DesignerWare LLC, formerly in Pennsylvania, putting the case within the realm of the court's jurisdiction.
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