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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Document Scanning Lead Sheet Nov-02-2018 1:02 pm Case Number: CGC-18-571075 Filing Date: Nov-02-2018 12:58 Filed by: BOWMAN LIU Image: 06559861 COMPLAINT STYLEFORM IT VS. FACEBOOK, INC. ET AL 001C06559861 Instructions: Please place this sheet on top of the document to be scanned. SUM-100 FOR COURT USE ONLY SUMMONS (SOLO PARA USO DE LA CORTE) (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (A VJSO AL DEMANDADO): FACEBOOK, INC., a Delaware corporation, (See Attachment A for additional defendants) YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): STYLEFORM IT, a Swedish sole proprietorship NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/se/fhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locale these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifomia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on anysettlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ;A VI SO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentra de 30 dias, Ia corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea Ia informacion a continuacion. nene 30 DiAS DE CALENDAR/0 despues de que /e entreguen esta citacion y pape/es legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia a/ demandante. Una carla o una 1/amada telefonica no /o prategen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que pracesen su caso en Ia corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de Ia corte y mas informacion en e/ Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en Ia biblioteca de /eyes de su condado o en Ia corte que /e quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar Ia cuota de presentacion, pida a/ secretario de Ia corte que /e de un formu/ario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder e/ caso por incump/imiento y Ia corte le podra quita'r su sue/do, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendab/e que /lame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede /lamar a un servicio de remision a ab'ogados. Sino puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de Iuera. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de Iuera en e/ sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcaljfornia.org), en e/ Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o ponitmdose en contacto con Ia corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, Ia corte tiene derecho a rec/amar las cuotas y los costas exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesi6n de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar e/ gravamen de Ia corte antes de que Ia corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (EI nombre y direcci6n de Ia corte es): San Francisco Superior Court 400 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (EI nombre, Ia direcci6n y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Stuart G. Gross, Gross & K1ein,The Embarcadero, Pier 9, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 671-4628 DATE: DEPUTY CLERK (Fecha) NOV, 0 2 2018 (For proof of setVice of this summons, use Proof of Service of Summons ( ~.) (Para prueba de entrega de esta citation use el formulario Proof of Service of Summons, (POS-010)). NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. D as an individual defendant. 2. CJ as the person sued under the fictitious name of (specify): BY FAX ONE LEGAL LLC 3. D on behalf of (specify): under: D CCP 416.10 (corporation) CJ CCP 416.60 (minor) D CCP 416.20 (defunct corporation) CJ CCP 416.70 (conservatee) D CCP 416.40 (association or partnership) CJ CCP 416.90 (authorized person) D other (specify): 4. D by personal delivery on (date): Pa e 1 of1 Form Adopted for Mandatory Use SUMMONS Code of Civil Procedure§§ 412.20.465 Judicial Council of California www.courtinfo.ca.gov SUM-100 [Rev. July 1, 2009] _______________________________________ ,_______ c Styleform !Tv. Facebook, Inc. ATTACHMENT A to SUMMONS CGC-18-571075 DEFENDANTS F ACEBOOK, INC., a Delaware corporation; FACEBOOK IRELAND LTD., an Irish limited liability company; MARK ZUCKERBERG, an individual; CHRISTOPHER COX, an individual; JAVIER OLIV AN, an individual; SAMUEL LESSIN, an individual; MICHAEL VERNAL, an individual; IL Y A SUKHAR, an individual; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, A 'W I /;/ ,/ 1 Stuart G. Gross (#251019) F Super1orI CourtLED of California Benjamin H. Klein (#313922) County of San Francisco 2 GROSS & KLEIN LLP The Embarcadero, Pier 9, Suite 100 3 NOV 02 Z018 San Francisco, CA 94111 CLE 4 Tel: (415) 671-4628 Fax: (415) 480-6688 BY:-.Q-~1.4 5 [email protected] [email protected] 6 7 Of counsel: 8 DavidS. Godkin (pro hac vice application anticipated) James E. Kruzer (pro hac vice application anticipated) 9 BIRNBAUM & GODKIN; LLP 280 Summer Street 10 Boston, MA 02210 11 Tel: (617) 307-6100 Fax: (617) 307-6101 12 [email protected] [email protected] 13 Attorneys for Plaintiff, BY FAX 14 STYLEFORM IT, ONE LEGAL LLC 15 a Swedish sole proprietorship 16 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF .SAN FRANCISCO 17 STYLEFORM IT, a Swedish sole ) Case No. 18 CGC-18-571075 proprietorship; ) 19 ) COMPLAINT OF PLAINTIFF Plaintiff, ) STYLEFORM IT FOR: 20 v. ) ) 1. BREACH OF CONTRACT 21 F ACEBOOK, INC., a Delaware corporation; ) 2. CONCEALMENT FACEBOOK IRELAND LTD., an Irish ) 3. INTENTIONAL 22 limited liability company; ) MISREPRESENTATION 23 MARK ZUCKERBERG, an individual; ) 4. NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION CHRISTOPHER COX, an individual; ) 5. INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE 24 JAVIER OLIVAN, an individual; ) WITH CONTRACT SAMUEL LESSIN, an individual; ) 6. INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE 25 MICHAEL VERNAL, an individual; ) WITH PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC 26 ILY A SUKHAR, an individual; and ) RELATIONS DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, ) 7. NEGLIGENT INTERFERENCE WITH 27 ) PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC Defendants. ) RELATIONS 28 8. VIOLATION OF BUSINESS AND 0 1 PROFESSIONS CODE §§ 17500 9. VIOLATION OF BUSINESS AND 2 PROFESSIONS CODE§§ 16720 10. VIOLATION OF BUSINESS AND 3 PROFESSIONS CODE§§ 17200 4 5 JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Complaint for Injunction and Damages ii 0 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 I. OVERVIEW OF THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM EXTORTION SCHEME ................... 1 3 II. THE PARTIES ................................................................................................................... 12 III. FACTS ............................................................................................................................... 19 4 IV. ZUCKERBERG LAUNCHES FACEBOOK PLATFORM IN MAY 2007, PROMISING 5 EQUAL ACCESS AND A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD .................................................... 27 V. DEVELOPERS RESPOND ENTHUSIASTICALLY TO F ACEBOOK PLATFORM, 6 BUT BY 2009, ZUCKERBERG IS ALREADY IDENTIFYING WAYS TO WEAPONIZE THEIR RELIANCE ................................................................................... 33 7 VI. FACEBOOK LAUNCHES GRAPH API IN 2010 TO CONTINUE TO INDUCE 8 DEVELOPERS TO RELY ON F ACEBOOK PLATFORM ............................................. 40 VII. THE FTC FINDS IN 2011 AND 2012 THAT FACEBOOKHAS DESIGNED ITS 9 PLATFORM IN A MANNER THAT VIOLATES PRIVACY AND ORDERS F ACEBOOK TO FIX ITS FLAWED DESIGN ................................................................ 44 10 VIII. INSTEAD OF FIXING THE FLAWED DESIGN, ZUCKERBERG IMPLEMENTS AN 11 EXTORTION SCHEME THAT WEAPONIZES USER DATA TRANSMITTED IN OVER 50 PUBLIC APIS, SHUTTING DOWN TARGETED COMPANIES UNLESS 12 THEY MAKE MINIMUM PURCHASES IN FACEBOOK'S NEW MOBILE ADVERTISING PRODUCT ............................................................................................. 48 13 IX. FROM 2012 ON, DEFENDANTS ENGAGE IN AN ACTIVE CONCEALMENT CAMPAIGN TO INDUCE FURTHER RELIANCE ON THESE 50 APIS IN ORDER TO 14 GAIN MORE EXTORTION LEVERAGE ....................................................................... 51 15 X. FROM 2012 TO 2015, FACEBOOK ENGAGES IN NUMEROUS PROJECTS THAT WILLFULLY VIOLATE USER PRIVACY TO ENHANCE THE EFFICACY OF ITS 16 ANTI-COMPETITIVE EXTORTION SCHEME ............................................................. 58 XI. IN 2013 AND 2014, DEFENDANTS FABRICATE A FRAUDULENT PRO-PRIVACY 17 NARRATIVE WHICH THEY INTERNALLY NAME THE "SWITCHAROO PLAN" TO COVER UP THE EXTORTION SCHEME ...............................................................