Microgaming added to Kentucky Internet gambling lawsuit

[The Buzz]

Online gambling operator Microgaming has been named as an amended part of a lawsuit filed in Kentucky against Full Tilt Poker and PartyGaming. This is a separate lawsuit than the domain seizure case that has garnered a number of headlines the last two years.

Poker News Daily has the details:

The lawsuit details that Microgaming is based in the Isle of Man and “facilitates, hosts, operates, and profits from more than 120 online casino sites and 40 online poker sites. Microgaming manages and controls the various partnerships.” It adds that the family of sites hosts more than three million visitors every month and the case against it can be litigated in the Commonwealth of Kentucky because it has “sufficient minimum contacts with the Commonwealth to establish a personal jurisdiction.”

Kentucky lawyers allege that Microgaming conducted commercial transactions, accepted monetary transfers, extended credit, hosted online poker games, set up and maintained accounts, took rake, shared in profits from its family of sites, employed proprietary software, and designed websites with “a purposeful, specific intention to do business over the internet” with players located within its borders. It added, “A clear commercial link exists between Microgaming and residents of the Commonwealth and warrants a finding of personal jurisdiction.”

[tryme]

Er. well. While Microgaming is, indeed, based in the Isle of Man and does provide online gambling software, host poker games...yada..yada,,yada... There's just one, minor, problem with the Commonwealth of Kentucky lawsuit: they don't do business with the USA. Ho hum. Over and out.

While the suit claims that they did provide USA - specifically Kentucky facing - services between 2005 and 2008, there was no legislation in place that made it illegal. And the spurious claim that 25% of their income in that period came from Kentucky is just a) at best guess work and b) most likely complete and utter BS.

[arkyt]

Er. well. While Microgaming is, indeed, based in the Isle of Man and does provide online gambling software, host poker games...yada..yada,,yada... There's just one, minor, problem with the Commonwealth of Kentucky lawsuit: they don't do business with the USA. Ho hum. Over and out.

Really? So you believe their shell game has gone over without any hitches?

[Renee]

The lawsuit details that Microgaming is based in the Isle of Man and “facilitates, hosts, operates, and profits from more than 120 online casino sites and 40 online poker sites. Microgaming manages and controls the various partnerships.” It adds that the family of sites hosts more than three million visitors every month and the case against it can be litigated in the Commonwealth of Kentucky because it has “sufficient minimum contacts with the Commonwealth to establish a personal jurisdiction.”

This is the part that gets me.. Microgaming does not host or manage ANY of the websites. Wasn't that the whole reason this debacle started in the first place? Because of the websites?

Apart from that, tryme is correct in that there was no law at the time saying that it was illegal for someone to take bets from a person living or physically present in Kentucky. As far as I know, there is still not such a law?

[Anthony]

Kentucky is reaching at straws.

Do they really think the world wide web revolves around Kentucky?!?

[MichaelCorfman]

Do they really think the world wide web revolves around Kentucky?!?

Well, dah. Of course it does ... in their eyes.

Michael

[pgaming]

Do they really think the world wide web revolves around Kentucky?!?

Good one Anthony I think the keyword is WORLD. How a state like Kentucky can continually impose their ethnocentric beliefs towards the Web is bizarre. The Web is a league of nations involving billions of people without borders. And we like it this way.

Kentucky should be ashamed and are very ignorant.

greek39

[DaftDog]

Kentucky is reaching at straws.

Do they really think the world wide web revolves around Kentucky?!?

I think the Governor of Kentucky suffers from "Small Penis Syndrome". The little ***** needs to wake-up and **** off.

[Renee]

I think the Governor of Kentucky suffers from "Small Penis Syndrome". The little ***** needs to wake-up and **** off.

You actually made me LOL