ePerks.com v. Zablotskyy [1]

Vlad Zablotskyy, a former real estate agent and operator of Go Beyond MLS [2], a blog that is focused on "using modern media and Internet as a marketing tool in the real estate industry," was sued by Brabus Ventures Corporation, which operates ePerks.com, a provider of sales leads for real estate agents. 

From August 2007 through February 2008, Zablotskyy wrote several blog posts criticizing ePerks.com and questioning whether ePerks was a scam [3]. Following the posting of a number of negative comments about the company in response to Zablotskyy's posts, an ePerks attorney sent correspondence [4] in February 2008 demanding that Zablotskyy remove all ePerks-related content from his site and cease writing about the company in the future.

Zablotskyy removed some of the material from his blog and created a post [4] explaining why he did so.  As a result of that post, Brabus Ventures sued Zablotskyy in California Superior Court.  See the related entry in the CMLP Database, Brabus Ventures v. Zablotskyy [5].