Free Speech Systems V PayPal
Free Speech Systems V PayPal
1 1.0 INTRODUCTION
2 1. Plaintiff FSS owns and operates the news web sites at the URLs
1 2.0 PARTIES
2 13. Plaintiff Free Speech Systems, LLC is a limited liability company
3 organized under the laws of the State of Texas, and is a citizen thereof, with a
4 principal place of business in Austin, Texas. Plaintiff FSS owns and operates the
5 web site <infowars.com>. Infowars is a news reporting and political commentary
6 web site that expresses views of hosts and guests that are politically conservative
7 and often controversial. Plaintiff FSS also owns and operates the web site
8 <infowarsstore.com>, which offers several products for sale, including dietary and
9 nutritional supplements, and literature created by and for politically conservative
10 audiences.
11 14. Defendant Paypal, Inc., is a corporation organized under the laws of
12 the State of Delaware, with its principal place of business in San Jose, in the State
13 of California, and is a citizen thereof. It offers payment-processing services
14 through its PayPal.com online platform, and is one of the most prominent and
15 frequently-used payment-processing services in the world.
16 3.0 JURISDICTION AND VENUE
17 15. This Court has original subject matter jurisdiction over this action
18 based on diversity pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332, as Plaintiff is a citizen of the State
19 of Texas, and Defendant is a citizen of the State of California.
20 16. This Court has personal jurisdiction over PayPal pursuant to the
21 California Long-Arm Statute, Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 410.10, as PayPal is
22 headquartered in California and is subject to the general jurisdiction of the courts
23 thereof.
24 17. Plaintiff is informed and believe that PayPal committed the acts
25 complained of in this Complaint while in the State of California. Accordingly,
26 venue is proper pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b)(1).
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Complaint
Case 5:18-cv-06013-SVK Document 1 Filed 10/01/18 Page 5 of 15
1 30. These terms are purposely vague, and could conceivably (and
2 unconscionably) be applied to any speech at all, given the opaque manner in
1 39. Plaintiff derives a significant portion of its revenue from products sold
2 on the Store Site.