The court decision is the latest in a string of strange episodes to which InfoSpace and the eccentric Jain have been a party. Former Merrill Lynch ( MER) analyst Henry Blodget, for example, agreed to pay a $4 million settlement and be barred from the securities industry in part because he published positive reports about the company while privately negative on the stock. More recently, Jain was ousted as InfoSpace's CEO late last year, then sued by InfoSpace this year for breaching contractual and fiduciary duties.