Summit Golf Brands and B. Draddy sue apparel brand Dairy Boy over an interlaced BD logo: complaint allegations

What was filed

The complaint is Document 1, filed October 20, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The case is Summit Golf Brands, Inc. and B. Draddy, LLC v. Dairy Boy, LLC and Paige Paul, No. 3:26-cv-01835. It runs 21 pages, including Exhibit A, which reproduces the registration and a USPTO notice. Counsel is Christopher M. Wasil of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, with four other Morgan Lewis lawyers listed as pro hac vice forthcoming.

The parties and the mark

The complaint says Summit Golf is a Delaware corporation based in New York, New York, and that B. Draddy, its subsidiary, is a limited liability company based in New York, New York. It describes Dairy Boy as a Connecticut limited liability company based in Westport, Connecticut, and Paige Paul as its founder and owner and a Connecticut citizen. Summit Golf says it owns incontestable U.S. Reg. No. 4,988,408 for the stylized BD mark, filed November 6, 2015, claiming use since at least June 30, 2013. USPTO records show the registration live and owned by Summit Golf Brands, Inc., registered June 28, 2016, for shirts and shorts in Class 25, with a Section 15 declaration acknowledged in July 2022 and the registration renewed in August 2026.

What the complaint alleges

The complaint says B. Draddy launched in 2013 and identifies its apparel with an interlaced B and D design, and that it now offers a BD Icon collection. It alleges that Dairy Boy, which it says sells casualwear and sportswear through dairyboy.com, social media and, on information and belief, a boutique in Nantucket, Massachusetts, used a "strikingly similar mark" on a collared shirt and scarves and in Instagram posts, including a photo from a Dairy Boy polo event showing the mark on a car door. It says a commenter on one post tagged B. Draddy and wrote that the design looked a lot like its logo.

According to the complaint, the plaintiffs sent Dairy Boy a cease-and-desist letter on January 6, 2026. Dairy Boy said the uses were isolated and that its remaining inventory would sell out over six to nine months, and the plaintiffs agreed to that delay and later to an extension through Black Friday. The complaint alleges that Dairy Boy entered the arrangement in bad faith, kept selling the shirts and reintroduced the scarves in mid-September 2026, and about two weeks after its latest assurances added a sweater and socks bearing the mark. It alleges, on information and belief, that the use is likely to cause confusion and that the conduct has been knowing and willful.

Claims and relief requested

The causes of action are trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1), brought by Summit Golf; unfair competition and false designation of origin under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1); a Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act claim; trademark infringement under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 35-11i, brought by Summit Golf; and common law unfair competition. The prayer asks for an injunction, removal of listings and posts showing the mark, a sworn compliance report under 15 U.S.C. § 1116(a), damages, an accounting of profits, enhanced damages up to three times under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a) and the Connecticut statute, attorneys' fees and costs, and interest.