{"id":14542,"date":"2010-03-04T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:35:15","slug":"ussa-sues-go211-com-over-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14542","title":{"rendered":"USSA Sues Go211.com Over Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/go211_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/go211_logo.jpg','popup','width=164,height=47,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/go211_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"57\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Go211 Logo\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Snowboard Association<\/a><\/strong> has filed suit against <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.go211.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go211.com<\/a><\/strong> owner <strong>Action Sports, Inc<\/strong>. after they say the company failed to pay the USSA a &#8220;$175,000 sponsorship fee, plus a 30 percent share of the defendant&#8217;s advertising rev according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/business\/ci_14507216\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake City Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and trademark infringement, the USSA is asking a U.S. District Court for Utah judge to award the organization monetary damages and to stop Boston-based Action Sports from displaying USSA-affiliated materials. . . . Action Sports President <strong>Sean Aruda<\/strong> declined to discuss details of the case, but said, &#8220;we obviously have a much different view of the facts &#8230; This is just a business disagreement they chose to escalate. . . &#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed their attorneys took this action, and we&#8217;re confident it will be settled amicably,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We would love to continue doing business with them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chances of that seems kind of slim at this point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/business\/ci_14507216\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake City Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Snowboard Association has filed suit against Go211.com owner Action Sports, Inc. after they say the company failed to pay the USSA a &#8220;$175,000 sponsorship fee, plus a 30 percent share of the defendant&#8217;s advertising rev according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune. Alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14545,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}