Prime Hydration LLC’s demand that soccer superstar Lionel Messi attend a settlement conference in a trade dress lawsuit over the sports drink Más+ by Messi is “designed solely to harass Mr. Messi,” his attorneys told a federal judge.
Messi doesn’t need to attend the March 11 settlement conference because the top executive of the company that owns Más+—Mark Anthony International SRL—will attend the conference and have full decision-making authority to negotiate and agree to a settlement, according to a letter filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company asked the court to ...