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Case 0:10-cv-61942-MGC Document 5-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 10/14/2010 Page 3 of 22<br />

6. Genuine Tiffany products are sold exclusively at Tiffany boutiques throughout the<br />

United States, and via the Internet on its own website Tiffany.com. Tiffany has spent tens of<br />

millions of dollars to extensively advertise and promote its goods and associated trademarks and<br />

copyrights. In the last five years alone, Tiffany’s sales of high quality jewelry, including<br />

bracelets, necklaces, pendants, rings, and key rings have been well into many hundreds of<br />

millions of dollars.<br />

7. As a result of the foregoing, the Tiffany Marks have acquired fame in the<br />

consumer market for a wide variety of jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, pendants, rings,<br />

key rings, and other goods. The Tiffany Marks have come to symbolize the enormous goodwill<br />

of Tiffany’s jewelry business throughout the United States and the world. No other manufacturer<br />

lawfully uses the Tiffany Marks or any substantially similar marks for similar types of goods.<br />

The Tiffany Marks have never been abandoned. Tiffany actively polices and enforces its<br />

trademark rights.<br />

8. The Tiffany Marks are vital to Tiffany’s business, as the marks represent virtually<br />

the entire value of Tiffany’s overall business and associated image. Tiffany suffers irreparable<br />

harm to its goodwill, as well as a direct monetary loss, any time any third parties, including the<br />

Defendant, sells counterfeit and infringing goods bearing identical or substantially similar<br />

trademarks.<br />

9. Tiffany recently received information that the Defendant was offering for sale and<br />

selling jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, pendants, rings, and key rings under the Tiffany<br />

Marks without Tiffany’s authorization via at least the Internet websites operating under the<br />

domain names set forth on Schedule “A” attached to Plaintiff’s Ex Parte Application<br />

(collectively the “Subject Domain Names”). The Defendant does not have, nor has he ever had,<br />

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