Makina Ve Kimya Endustrisi A.S. v. A.S.A.P. Logistics LTD.

── Makina Ve Kimya Endustrisi A.S. v. A.S.A.P. Logistics LTD. ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Date: April 30, 2026 Category: General 25-1807-cv Makina Ve Kimya Endustrisi A.S. v. A.S.A.P. Logistics LTD. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 30th day of April, two thousand twenty-six. PRESENT: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., SARAH A. L. MERRIAM, Circuit Judges. ------------------------------------------------------------------ MAKINA VE KIMYA ENDUSTRISI A.S., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 25-1807-cv A.S.A.P. LOGISTICS LTD., ASAP LOGISTICS AND DEFENSE SECURITY SERVICES LTD., ASAP LOJISTIK VE SAVUNMA TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI, DEBORAH CROSS, GUVEN ACARER, 1  Defendants-Appellees. * ------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR APPELLANT: JOHN T. RUSKUSKY, Nixon Peabody LLP, Chicago, IL (Alper Tosun, Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY, Juliet J. DeFrancisco, Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, MA, Vincent Nguyen, Nixon Peabody LLP, Melville, NY, on the brief) FOR APPELLEES A.S.A.P. RICHARD S. MANDEL (Jaime A. LOGISTICS LTD., ASAP LOGISTICS Berman, on the brief), Cowan, AND DEFENSE SECURITY Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New SERVICES LTD., ASAP LOJISTIK York, NY VE SAVUNMA TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI, DEBORAH CROSS: FOR APPELLEE GUVEN ACARER: Guven Acarer, pro se, Istanbul, Turkey Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Arun Subramanian, Judge). UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED. Plaintiff-Appellant Makina Ve Kimya Endustrisi A.S. (“MKE”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of *The Clerk of Court is directed to amend the caption as set forth above. Although Guven Acarer “has not participated in the case” since the District Court “granted [his] counsel’s motion to withdraw from his representation[,] MKE never sought a default judgment against him.” App’x 650 n.1. 2 New York (Subramanian, J.) arising from MKE’s suit against Defendants- Appellees for their unauthorized use of MKE’s wordmark and logo in connection with soliciting customers to purchase MKE ammunition. 1 MKE first challenges the judgment insofar as it