Fenix Internet repeated-litigation chronology
After federal case C042 was dismissed in Nov. 2024 with an express appeal-frivolous finding, Tufano filed two more actions against Fenix Internet LLC over the same underlying February 2023 account ban: a Lackawanna County state complaint (C011, later removed and continuing federally as C052) and a separate federal complaint (C051). C011's own research notes describe this as "at least the third near-identical suit" against Fenix/OnlyFans.
C042's own dismissal order expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith; C011's docket-confirmed research notes independently characterize the pattern as a third near-identical suit.
Research assessment
The repeat-filing pattern across three actions against the same defendant over the same underlying dispute is source-backed for C042, C011/C052, and C051's docket history. No court has yet ruled on whether C011/C052's or C051's claims are identical to C042's dismissed claims.
Important caveat
C011's own research notes describe C051 as filed after it, but by docket date C051 (2025-06-02) was actually filed six days after C011 (2025-05-27), not before -- this entry uses the confirmed filing dates rather than resolving that ordering language. The C052 stay-tension question is resolved as of 2026-08-23: a stay order was entered 2025-12-18 staying C052 until 30 days after C051's resolution, and no lift-stay entry appears on a docket current through 2026-08-21, so the default-judgment motions of 2026-06-10 and 2026-06-23 were filed during the stay. That is a docket snapshot -- the stay order itself was not read, and no court has ruled on the effect of those filings.
Cases in this sequence
Timeline
Tufano filed federal complaint C042 against Fenix Internet LLC (OnlyFans' U.S. operating entity) over a February 2023 account ban.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Amended complaint dismissed for failure to state a claim, without further leave to amend; the order also deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith.
Source — casemine.com ↗Tufano filed C011 in Lackawanna County against Fenix Internet LLC over the same underlying February 2023 account ban, roughly 6.5 months after C042 was dismissed with an appeal-frivolous finding.
Source — lpa-homes.org ↗Tufano filed a separate federal complaint, C051, against Fenix Internet LLC, six days after filing the state complaint C011.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Fenix Internet LLC removed C011 to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where it continues as C052 (same originating action as C011).
Source — courtlistener.com ↗The court stayed C052 until 30 days following resolution of the related action C051 (3:25-cv-00976). No lift-stay entry appears on the docket as of 2026-08-21, so the amended default-judgment motions Tufano filed in C052 on 2026-06-10 and 2026-06-23 were both filed while the stay was in effect.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗The court denied Tufano's motion for default judgment in C051 and set an Aug. 27, 2026 deadline for proof of service under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m), on pain of dismissal.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Primary source
Open primary source — pacermonitor.com ↗Cite this page
Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Fenix Internet repeated-litigation chronology". Research last verified August 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/research/fenix-internet-repeated-litigation-chronology/