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By Seth Olson

The Cleveland Cavaliers and partner Flash Seats Monday filed a federal lawsuit in Ohio against Ticketmaster alleging the primary ticket seller is violating state and federal anti-trust laws. According to TicketNews.com[1], Flash Seats provides an electronic, paperless ticketing system to Cavs season ticket holders, and the lawsuit is moving “to stop Ticketmaster’s ongoing campaign to utilize its substantial market power in ticketing service to exclude actual and potential competition.”[2]

The Cavs and Flash Seats allege that Ticketmaster is “coercively seeking to enforce its primary-ticketing contracts"(relating to the direct sale of tickets to the public) with the Cavaliers and other customers, by allegedly trying to make the Cavs “use only Ticketmaster’s own secondary-ticketing program (relating to the resale of tickets) or none at all.” Ticketmaster had not issued a statement about the lawsuit at press time, but it does not offer an electronic, paperless secondary-ticketing product similar to that of Flash Seats.