2nd Circuit: Hague Convention Bars Email Service To Accused ‘Baby Shark’ Copiers

( December 19, 2025, 2:43 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge rightly dismissed China-based defendants from an intellectual property suit brought by the company behind the children’s viral song “Baby Shark,” a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 18; the panel agreed with the judge on a matter of first impression for the appeals court that email service to entities in China is not permissible under the Hague Service Convention....