Appeals court vacates Amazon’s injunction against Perplexity

An injunction appeal, not the whole lawsuit

The Ninth Circuit vacated the March preliminary injunction that had restricted Perplexity's Comet assistant on Amazon and remanded the case. Its published opinion and contemporary reporting date the appellate action to August 4. [1][2]

On the record presented, the panel concluded that users accessed Amazon's computers with the assistant's help, making Amazon unlikely to succeed on the computer-access claims. The opinion expressly limited that analysis to the technology and facts before it, left other potential forms of liability unaddressed and preserved Amazon's ability to regulate access through private terms. It did not grant agents unrestricted access to websites or finally dispose of every claim. [1]