Alibaba successfully dismisses Gucci’s claim that Alibaba participated in a conspiracy with counterfeiters to sell counterfeit goods on Alibaba. That the merchants may have resulted in an ‘online retail cluster’ that benefited each other from some sort of network effect, did not rise to a ‘hub and spokes’ RICO conspiracy.

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