Concert ticket seller Songkick lost its bid Wednesday to block Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Ticketmaster LLC from charging hefty fees on “presale” tickets provided to artists and then sold on the Songkick.com platform.

Complete Entertainment Resources LLC, doing business as Songkick, “failed to show virtually any likelihood of success on the merits” of its antitrust claims against Live Nation and Ticketmaster and “only made a weak showing, at best, as to irreparable harm,” U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer of the Central District of California wrote in a memorandum.

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