A Rule 4(m) dismissal closes the OnlyFans case, and no new lawsuits (October 17, 2026)
A full sweep of every forum this litigant files in found no lawsuit the tracker does not already hold, and one case closed.
The Middle District of Pennsylvania action against Fenix Internet LLC, doing business as OnlyFans, was dismissed without prejudice on Oct. 15, 2026 and the case was closed. The court adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that the complaint be dismissed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m), which allows a court to dismiss an action if the defendant is not served within 90 days of the complaint being filed. A summons had issued in April 2026 and two show cause orders, in July and September, had each directed the plaintiff to provide proof of service and warned that the case could be dismissed without it. He responded with a proof-of-service form stating that a process server had reached the defendant’s registered agent in Delaware, but the form carried the case number of a different action against the same defendant, and the court held it did not show service in this case. The dismissal is without prejudice, which means it does not decide the merits and does not by itself bar a further action.
This closes the longest-standing gap in the record. Until now the Rule 4(m) sequence in this case rested on a subscription docket service that a reader could not open, and two free mirrors of the docket both stopped in June 2025. The terminating order reached the free federal record, so the whole sequence is now cited to a document anyone can read.
The search for new cases was wide enough for its null result to carry weight. A nationwide federal index search returned four Tufano dockets filed since Oct. 1, all four already tracked, and the Second, Third and Ninth Circuit dockets returned no appeal that is not already recorded. The Lackawanna County General Index reconciles exactly: thirty-nine entries under his own name, of which thirty-eight are the cases on file and the thirty-ninth is the administrative order already recorded as such rather than as a lawsuit, plus two more under his companies. The index holds no entry under any spelling of the Frankie’s Free Range Meat trading name. New York was searched statewide by filing date under his own name and three company-name variants and returned nothing new, and the method was checked against a control search whose answer was already known. No forum refused or blocked a request this pass.
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A dismissal without prejudice is not a ruling on whether a claim is right or wrong. It ends this particular case — here because the defendant was never shown to have been served with it — and leaves the underlying claim legally open. No court has made a vexatious-litigant determination about this litigant, and nothing in this update records one.