OnlyFans Sheds Suit Over Direct Message Feature on Forum Grounds

OnlyFans subscribers must go to England to litigate claims that the site deceptively advertised the nature of communications features because a forum selection clause was valid, a federal judge said.

Fenix International Ltd., the company behind OnlyFans, included a forum selection clause in the OnlyFans terms of service that said claims must be brought in English courts. The forum selection clause is valid and doesn’t violate public policy, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The subscribers’ case “is not the kind of rare or unusual case in which the parties’ forum selection should ...