“NY STATE OF MIND” JAY-Z SUES RED SOX ORTIZ OVER CLUB NAME!

New York don’t play that!!!

Rap mogul and avid Yankee fan Jay-Z and his business partner are suing Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, claiming the baseball player named his Dominican nightclub after the mogul’s chain of 40/40 clubs. See story below…

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, accuses Ortiz of naming his Santo Domingo club Forty-Forty in the hopes of trading in on the rap star’s fame.

The suit seeks over $5 million in damages and for Ortiz to forfeit any use of the 40/40 name.

Jay-Z’s string of bars can be found in Manhattan, Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

“David Ortiz is fully aware of Plaintiff’s Manhattan 40/40 club, since he had been a patron there on several occasions before he opened his Infringing Forty/Forty club,” the lawsuit states.

The clubs are named after the feat of hitting 40 homers and stealing 40 bases in one season.

Certainly a business move by Jay-Z…protecting his own interests…but you gotta figure there’s a little added incentive here, in that the person he’s suing is a Red Sox ballplayer! Yankee fans have no love for Boston. None!!!

SOURCE: FOX SPORTS