Judge Denies ex-Amazon Seller’s Motion to Remand Arbitration Vacatur Petition
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon for Southern New York in Manhattan denied the motion of former Amazon third-party Shenzhen Zongheng Domain Network to remand its petition to vacate a $508,000 arbitration award in Amazon’s favor to New York County Supreme…
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Court, said her text-only order Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03334). Rochon will give the basis for her ruling during the court’s initial case conference Wednesday, said the order. The arbitrator let Amazon keep the $508,000 in sales proceeds when it deactivated seller’s account for manipulating customer product reviews to artificially and deceptively inflate the perceived value of the goods it was selling in the Amazon store (see 2305080023).