Astroworks, Inc. v. Astroexhibit, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff could maintain a claim for conversion of his website
• denying motion to dismiss and leaving unresolved whether ideas were actually proprietary
• plaintiff could maintain a claim for conversion of his website because the defendant “obtain[ed] a copyright on the website, effectively co-opting [the plaintiff’s] idea”
• allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and wrongful appropriation is misconduct beyond that which breached the contract and is sufficient to defeat a motion to dismiss
• “whether a promise is collateral or extraneous to an agreement depends entirely on the contours of the agreement”
• “A complaint may not allege inconsistent facts . . . because facts are binding judicial admissions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).