Mesa Airlines v. Uslan, Civil No. 07-178 (D. Ariz. dismissed June 25, 2007).
Status: Dismissed


Mesa Airlines, which does business as the airline go! serving the Hawaiian islands, sued Mike Uslan over postings on the dontflygo.com blog site, which Mesa alleged he controlled. Uslan, a pilot with rival Aloha Airlines, was reported in one newspaper article to have been a founder of an anti-go! group named “Hawaii's Airline Employees Repelling Ornstein," or “HERO.” ("Ornstein" refers to Jonathan Ornstein, the Chief Executive Officer of Mesa's parent company, Mesa Air Group, Inc.) Mesa Air Group is an Arizona corporation based in Pheonix, and the dontflygo.com site was initially registered with an Arizona-based hosting company that provided anonymous hosting. Nevertheless, the court dismissed the case on personal jurisdiction grounds, holding that that Mesa had not sufficiently alleged Uslan’s connection to the site.

Links and Court Documents
Summary and case documents: http://www.mesavsuslan.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_Airlines_v._Uslan_lawsuit
http://honoluluweekly.com/diary/2007/03/navy-to-use-sonar-despite-earlier-rulings-2/
http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/23/business/story02.html
http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/02/26/daily45.html?surround=lfn
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/06/25/daily17.html?from_rss=
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=524317
Order granting motion to dismiss: http://www.dontflygo.com/documents/decision.pdf

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