An effort to use Amazon’s arbitration provision to dispense with class claims against the maker of a digital home video system, which sold the product on Amazon but wasn’t party to the contract, has failed.

Though the manufacturer prevailed in part on other grounds, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson of the District of New Jersey said in Shapiro v. Logitech that “accepting Defendant’s reading of the Conditions of Use could have serious, wide-ranging, and unintended implications.”

Judge Freda Wolfson. Photo by Carmen Natale