Subsequent Events

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Subsequent Events [Abstract]

Subsequent Events

Subsequent Events

On April 11, 2013, the Company acquired the shares of Backup Connect BV, an online backup provider based in The Netherlands. The financial impact to j2 Global is immaterial as of the date of the acquisition.

On April 23, 2013, j2 Global filed with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K reporting that it had entered into a settlement and patent license agreement with Open Text Corporation to resolve pending patent litigation. As reported in such filing, Open Text agreed to pay j2 Global $27,000,000 in the second quarter of 2013 in exchange for a fully paid up license to certain j2 Global patents plus a running royalty for a license to those patents for sales of fax software and services to individual and small office/home office customers, provided that such royalty exceeds a stipulated minimum amount.  In such filing, j2 Global further reported that the Company and Open Text have caused all outstanding litigation between them and their affiliates to be dismissed with prejudice and have granted each other full mutual releases.

On May 7, 2013, the Company's Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.24 per share of common stock payable on June 4, 2013 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 20, 2013.