A New Jersey judge has tossed out a case against two ticket resellers in a a lawsuit filed by the state against two concert ticket resellers over the resale of tickets to Bruce Springsteen shows at Giants Stadium last year.

Orbitz Worldwide and TicketNetwork Direct were charged with violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by offering tickets before they were made available to the public, some of which they allegedly didn't possess at the time or which didn't correspond to actual seats in the stadium.

In a report by the Associated Press, a 19-page ruling filed Aug. 26 was mailed to the parties and Superior Court Judge Patricia Costello wrote that a 1996 federal law pre-empts state law and protects the companies from liability for statements or claims made by third parties on their Web site.

Don Vaccaro, chief executive officer of TicketNetwork told the AP that he blamed the scarcity of highly sought-after concert tickets for artists who frequently hold back blocks of tickets from the public.

"The secondary ticket market and ticket brokers are not to blame for tickets that are sold out in minutes, but rather they provide an alternative outlet for purchasing these pre on-sale tickets that are normally unavailable to the general public," he said.