Insomniac Events and the trio of promoters behind Miami’s famous Club Space have settled their legal dispute after almost a year of litigation.
The dance music event giant and Club Space business partners David Sinopoli, Davide Danese, and Jose Gabriel Coloma Cano revealed they “have amicably resolved their dispute” in a statement shared by the Miami New Times yesterday.
“Insomniac will continue to operate Club Space alongside David Sinopoli and maintain its commitment to Factory Town,” the statement reads. “Davide Danese and Coloma Cano will continue to operate Jolene, along with David Sinopoli. Davide Danese and Coloma Cano will also undertake new projects.”
The resolution follows a nearly year-long back-and-forth since Insomniac filed a federal lawsuit against the trio in August 2025, alleging breach of contract and bad-faith conduct centered on the operation of Club Space and Factory Town, the partners’ other co-produced venue in nearby Hialeah.
That complaint revealed a multi-year dispute wherein Insomniac claimed its local partners demanded “outrageous” sums of money and used nefarious practices to try to “bully” them out of the partnership, including an alleged smear campaign against Insomniac founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella, in an attempt to gain more control of Factory Town.
The dispute followed a mediation agreement reached in June 2025 that Insomniac claimed allowed the company to purchase the local trio’s ownership stake in Factory Town for $3 million. Insomniac alleged that the venue operators violated the agreement by telling promoters they had “won the lawsuit against Insomniac” and by blocking the company’s access to Factory Town ticketing and social accounts.
Sinopoli, Danese, and Cano vehemently denied those allegations, arguing that Insomniac had stripped them of ownership rights and operational control after the festival giant took over the Factory Town lease, leaving them with “all the work, all the risk, and a drastically reduced upside,” per the Miami New Times.
One month after Insomniac filed its lawsuit, the trio filed a counterclaim alleging that it was Insomniac that had breached the agreement, which required both sides to collaborate on popular Factory Town events such as Hocus Pocus and Miami Art Week, by instead making bookings and business decisions without consulting Sinopoli, Danese, and Cano. It also heavily criticized Rotella’s business practices, which Insomniac dismissed as slanderous.
After further settlement discussions in the fall of 2025, attorneys for Insomniac and the local partners announced last month that they had reached a new agreement. The case has now been dismissed, closing the lengthy legal battle between two of dance music’s most influential figures.
Featured image courtesy: Insomniac Events.