Amazon Beats Antitrust Appeal Over Shipping, Logistics Services

Amazon.com Inc. didn’t violate antitrust laws by funneling third-party sellers toward its own fulfillment services in exchange for more favorable placement on the shopping platform, a federal appeals court ruled.

The plaintiffs in the case, who bought retail goods on Amazon, failed to show consumers suffered antitrust injury from the shipping or logistics services market, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unpublished Thursday ruling, upholding a district court’s dismissal of the antitrust claims.

Amazon shoppers who brought the proposed class action alleged the e-commerce giant forced third-party sellers to pay for its Fulfillment by ...