On April 27, 2020, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska that awarded Infogroup $11.2 million against DatabaseUSA for copyright infringement and $10 million against former shareholder Vinod Gupta for breach of contract.
The dispute began in February 2014, when Infogroup alleged that DatabaseUSA.com stole confidential trade secrets including data files and customer lists and copied substantial nonfunctional elements of Infogroup’s websites, and that Gupta breached the non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in his separation agreement.
