These people have been successful before using the same format and procedure in the same courts - hence, the first thing to do is to respond to them so that they cannot get a default judgement against you for lack of response to the complaint - which I have to the email address provided by eBay (today).
I am hopeful that this is not too late given first contact was about 10 days ago via e-mail.
I ignored the first contact sent to my email (outside of eBay) because the documents looked like they were done by a high school student where some of the attachments referenced Lucky Brand Jeans so I was suspicious that it was a foreign phishing scam.
Additionally, I am skeptical that a default judgement can be issued without proper proof of service, which I previously doubted could be proven by sending an e-mail and not a physical notice via USPS or by use of a process server - however, I am not a lawyer. It appears, however, by reading other documents related to the previous judgement, that notification by eBay (which was done after they presented eBay with a court ordered preliminary judgement) is actually good enough for the Illinois courts.
Bottom line is you need to make contact with them to avoid a default judgement being issued and then lets see how they are going to deal with this matter. My assumption is this is going to cost us some money to make it go away and settle OR it's going to cost us some money to fight their claims.
For me personally, I'll probably pursue the cheapest avenue as I did sell some of these filters I obtained from an Amazon Returns Pallet...which is probably the same case for many of us and flipping was done without malice (which does come into play for determining damages but not if we are guilty - not knowing the product was not genuine, sadly, is not an excuse).
Did I just admit guilt? yes....does it matter, no...they bought from us and that's how they got our contact information. Fighting them saying it ain't so or that the product was legit is a tough challenge since they are the rights holders and the courts will take their word over ours no matter what.
If someone disagrees with my 2 cents, more power to you but if you don't want them to cause you a ton of pain (which it appears these people are more than willing to do) you/we need to start a discussion with them and come to some solution.
