In a lawsuit filed last week, a Los Angeles-based company called Balmuccino alleged (again) that the coffee chain had stolen its ideas and suppliers for a coffee lip balm product.

Starbucks said via email it “firmly believes”[s] These allegations are unfounded, and we look forward to presenting our case in court.”

This is the company’s second attempt at a business suit. According to Reutersthe first lawsuit was filed in 2019, but was dismissed because the court found it “did not have jurisdiction” or did not have the authority to hear the case.

Balmuccino’s suit claims Starbucks “effectively stole” the lip balm idea after Balmuccino met Mesh Gelman, who was then the company’s head of product development and an SVP in 2017. The suit, says Gelman, asked for a lot of information. about the product, saying he would “give the idea ‘the flagpole’.” The idea was that Balmuccino would be “duly compensated and given due credit” for the idea.

The company then claims that a supplier of the lip balm told Balmuccino in 2018 that it received help from Starbucks for a product with “identical” specifications that Balmuccino had given Gelman. In April 2019, as the suit notes, Starbucks issued a line of lip balms based on the S’mores Frappuccino.

Keep that glamorous graham all summer long with the exclusive S’mores Frappuccino Sip Kit. Win this and more in the #SmoresLifeContest. https://t.co/B3o6JYvuQ6 pic.twitter.com/MHXGUHukBc

— Starbucks coffee (@Starbucks) April 29, 2019

The original meeting came together, the suit says, because one of Balmuccino’s associates, Samantha Lemole, was a sister-in-law of Dr. Oz, who then put her in touch with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (who is currently transition out of the roll).

Balmuccino says that in the original meeting with Gelman, they asked executives to sign an NDA and Gelman declined, saying that “the meeting and the points discussed therein were completely confidential and that the relationship between Mr. Schultz and Dr. Oz, who mediated at the meeting should provide the necessary comfort and protection to the plaintiff through the nondisclosure agreement.”

For example, the lawsuit alleges that the company has broken its verbal agreement to follow an NDA.

Lemol archived for divorce from George Griffith, who is related to Dr. oz, based on IMDB pages in December 2020. But on her website biography, she says she is still married to Griffith and that Dr. Oz hair is”brother in law.”

Balmuccino’s suit didn’t mention the damage.