Pretrial Conference Set on Amazon Seller's Petition to Vacate Arbitration Award
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon for Southern New York in Manhattan scheduled an initial pretrial conference for July 26 at 10:30 a.m. on Amazon third-party seller Shenzhen Zongheng Domain Network's petition to vacate a $507,619 arbitration award in Amazon’s favor,…
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said a notice Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-03334). Amazon declined to disburse the $507,619 in sales proceeds to the seller after learning it was manipulating customer product reviews (see 2304210001). Amazon “suddenly deactivated” Shenzhen Zongheng’s accounts in July 2021 with “no prior warning,” and simultaneously “froze” its sales proceeds, said the seller’s petition.