SAN FRANCISCO — Ticketmaster and the Golden State Warriors have succeeded in blocking a lawsuit challenging their exclusive partnership for ticket resales. StubHub Inc., which filed an antitrust suit in March, failed to identify a viable ticket market, a key factor in supporting its claims, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District of California wrote in a brief order Thursday that dismissed the complaint in its entirety. She gave StubHub until the end of the month to amend. The ruling is a win for Ticketmaster’s attorneys at Latham & Watkins, and the Warriors’ attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
StubHub, represented by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Constantine Cannon and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, had claimed it was boxed out of the resale market after the basketball team struck a deal to use Ticketmaster exclusively. The defendants have canceled or threatened to cancel season-ticket packages if fans resell their tickets on another platform, according to the complaint, and misled fans by promoting Ticketmaster as the only supplier of “official” Warriors tickets.
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