A divided federal appeals panel has revived a lawsuit filed against the owner of a website that sells drivers' personal information by a man who claims his information was sold to another man who used it to harass and threaten him.

Judge Denny Chin (See Profile), writing for a 2-1 majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Gordon v. Softech International, 12-661-cv, ruled that Southern District Judge Richard Berman (See Profile) should not have dismissed the case against Arcanum Investigations Inc., a private agency that runs the website Docusearch.com.