Sonos Seeks to Toss Royalties Suit, Citing Recent Sirius XM Win

Smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc. asked a federal judge to toss a suit from royalty clearinghouse SoundExchange Inc., pointing to another judge’s recent ruling that Congress didn’t give SoundExchange the right to sue over missing royalties.

Sonos highlighted the ruling axing SoundExchange’s lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio Inc. in a motion to dismiss filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The Sirius ruling that SoundExchange lacks standing to sue for unpaid of royalties “precludes religitation of the standing issue here, even if SoundExchange believes Sirius was wrongly decided,” Sonos argued.

“The issue decided in the ...