The bigger question of whether Internet retailers, media companies and others will have to pay sales taxes in every state they have customers in awaits further action in the Supreme Court and Congress.
North Dakota in 1992 the Supreme Court refused to impose collections on out-of-state customers, citing a 1967 decision relying on due-process and interstate-commerce arguments.
Motz based his 49-page ruling on a 1977 Supreme Court case that restricted damage claims against antitrust violators by claimants who were not direct customers of the defendant.