Jimmy Buffett Needs His CheeseburgersInParadise.com

UDRP filing goes following domain name CheeseburgerSinparadise.com.

An arbitration request has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the domain name CheeseburgersInParadise.com. This is similar to “Cheeseburger (singular) in Paradise”, the famous song and brand owned by Jimmy Buffett and his associated firms.

My guess is his restaurant chain, which uses the CheeseburgerInParadise.com domain name, is going following the domain. A screenshot of CheeseburgerSinparadise.com from March 2008 shows the page of a restaurant and grill called Skeeterz, which was probably enough to get Buffet’s trademark lawyers to go following it. As stated by Compete.com, CheeseburgerInParadise.com gets regarding 25,000-35,000 visits per month.

U.S. Patent & Trademark registration 2790010 for “Cheeseburger in Paradise” covers goods and services related to “Restaurant, bar and nightclub services”. It was originally filed for by Jimmy Buffett himself but has since been assigned to Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC. A number of other trademarks for the term are owned by either Buffett or JB Intellectual Property.

The typo domain name was registered in 2002 and right now points to a GoDaddy parked page featuring ads for Wendys and Yellowbook.com.

Update: Here’s the complaint. It was filed by Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC.

Update: Margaritaville Enterprises won the case