LIV Golf hit with $1 million-plus tech bill lawsuit
Mobii Systems says LIV Golf owes unpaid licensing and usage fees, plus lost revenue after dropping its broadcast technology for 2026 events.
By Georgia Hale · Staff Writer
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LIV Golf is facing a federal lawsuit from a Canadian technology vendor that says the league left more than $1 million on the table after using its broadcast features.
Mobii Systems Group Limited filed the complaint Friday in U.S. District Court in Miami, according to ESPN. The company supplied the technology behind LIV Golf’s “Any Shot, Any Time” broadcast features.
In the complaint, Mobii alleges LIV Golf failed to pay $820,600 in licensing fees and $104,500 in usage fees for the current season. The company is also asking for $209,531 tied to revenue it says it lost when LIV allegedly cut off the rest of a two-year deal that was due to run through Dec. 31.
The lawsuit says LIV paid its invoices for the same product in 2025. Mobii’s lawyers sent a payment demand on May 8, according to the complaint, giving the league until May 15 to settle the outstanding bills.
The email at the center of the fight
The complaint says Nick Connor, LIV Golf’s senior vice president of technology, emailed Mobii on May 25 to say the league would stop using the company’s system for its Korea tournament from May 28 to May 31 and for the five events after that.
According to the complaint, Connor said LIV was reviewing its “business model, our partnerships and our cost structure.”
Connor also acknowledged in the email that payment delays had strained the relationship, ESPN reported. He wrote that LIV did not view litigation over the invoices as a productive use of either side’s time or resources, according to the complaint.
The email also said the decision was not a reflection of Mobii’s work or services and thanked the company for its partnership over several years, according to ESPN’s account of the filing.
Mobii sent LIV a notice terminating the agreement that same day, according to the complaint.
Mobii says the deal was cut short
Mobii argues in the lawsuit that LIV’s decision prevented it from performing under the contract and cost it money from the remaining six events on the 2026 schedule.
The company says those events all fell within the term of the agreement. LIV has not been reported by ESPN as giving a separate public response to the lawsuit beyond the email described in the complaint.
The filing lands during a fraught stretch for the breakaway golf league. ESPN reported that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had put more than $5 billion into LIV Golf before announcing on April 30 that it would stop funding the circuit.
ESPN also reported that LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil is trying to raise $300 million to keep the league operating beyond this season.
LIV’s next scheduled tournament is set to begin Thursday at JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester, England.
This story draws on original reporting from ESPN.com.