AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC vs LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR.

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2025 Supreme(Online)(Del) 3232

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
C. HARI SHANKAR, AJAY DIGPAUL, JJ
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC – Appellant
Versus
LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR. – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Mr. Arvind Nigam, Mr. Saikrishna Rajagopal, Mr. Sidharth Chopra, Ms. Sneha Jain, Mr. Devvrat Joshi, Mr. Angad S Makkar, Ms. Ira Mahajan, Ms. Pritha Suri, Mr. Agnish Aditya
For the Respondents: Mr. Gaurav Pachnanda, Mr. J. Sai Deepak, Mr. Ankit Jain, Mr. Mohit Goel, Mr. Sidhant Goel, Mr. Deepankar Mishra, Mr. Karmanya Dev Sharma, Mr. Aditya Goel, Mrs. Namrata Sinha, Mr. Love Virvani

JUDGMENT

01.07.2025

C. HARI SHANKAR, J.

CM APPL. 26455/2025 Facilitative Index to the Judgment

S. No.	Subject	Para Nos
1	Opening para	1
2	A prefatory note	2 – 5
3	Appellant’s submission in a nutshell	6 – 8
4	The lis	9 – 18
5	Rival pleadings in the suit	19 - 33
6	The plaint	20 – 30
7	Replication of Lifestyle to written statement of Cloudtail	31 – 33
8	Related contentions of learned Senior Counsel for Amazon Tech	34 – 36
9	Trajectory of the suit before the learned Single Judge	37 – 38
10	The impugned judgment	39 – 56
11	Rival Submissions before us
12	Submissions of Mr. Arvind Nigam
13	A No infringement by Amazon Tech	57 – 64
14	B Order dated 2 March 2023	65 – 67
15	C Re. apparent error in para 9 of impugned judgment	68
16	D Damages claimed could not have been enhanced without amendment, merely on the basis of evidence led during trial and in written submissions – itself insufficient to sustain enhanced damages – No opportunity to Amazon Tech to meet claim for enhanced damages – Violation of principles of natural justice	69 – 74
17	E Re. finding of Amazon Tech, Cloudtail and ASSPL operating as “single commercial entity”	75
18	F Misguided reliance on Licence Agreement dated 23 December 2015	76 – 77
19	G Quantification of damages cannot be left

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2025 Supreme(Online)(Del) 3232

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHIC. HARI SHANKAR, AJAY DIGPAUL, JJAMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC – AppellantVersusLIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR. – Respondent

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
C. HARI SHANKAR, AJAY DIGPAUL, JJ
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC – Appellant
Versus
LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV & ANR. – Respondent