Apple Beats Currency App Developer’s Competition Claims Again

Apple Inc. defeated claims for a second time in San Francisco federal court brought by the founder of Konverti, a peer-to-peer currency exchange app, who alleged its removal from the Apple App Store violated a California unfair competition law.

Thomas Reilly, Konverti’s founder, was unable to show Apple’s decision to remove the app weeks after it appeared in the store in 2017 constituted fraud or was anti-competitive behavior, Judge Edward M. Chen said Monday.

Chen, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, had dismissed antitrust and unfair competition claims in January, but allowed Reilly to file ...