LARSEN, Circuit Judge. La Bamba Licensing, LLC (“La Bamba”) filed suit against La Bamba Authentic Mexican, Inc. (now known as “La Villa Rica Mexican Cuisine, Inc.”) for trademark infringement and unfair competition in violation of the Lanham Act and for common law unfair competition, alleging that La Villa Rica infringed La Bamba’s registered trademark “LA BAMBA.” The district court granted summary judgment in favor of La Bamba. The district court then granted La Bamba an award of profits, costs, and attorneys’ fees. La Villa Rica appeals the award of profits and attorneys’ fees. We AFFIRM.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge. It is well known that the U.S. Constitution incorporates the “sovereign immunity” from private lawsuits that the states possessed before the founding. This federal constitutional immunity covers claims filed against the states in federal court, see Seminole Tribe of Fla. v. Florida, 517 U.S. 44, 57–73 (1996), claims filed against them in their own courts under federal law, see Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706, 730–54 (1999), and claims filed against them in another state’s courts, see Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Hyatt, 139 S. Ct. 1485, 1493–99 (2019).

But a state’s sovereign immunity does not end with the federal Constitution. When a plaintiff pursues state claims against state defendants, these defendants may also invoke the state’s own common-law or constitutional rules of sovereign immunity. In this case, we must consider Kentucky’s sovereign-immunity law, which grants “pure” immunity to some state actors and “governmental” immunity to others. To help develop ports, Kentucky gives its localities the power to create riverport authorities. The plaintiff in this case brought state claims against a riverport authority’s executive director. The district court held that Kentucky would not grant sovereign immunity to this director when sued in her official capacity. We reverse because she is entitled to Kentucky’s “governmental” form of sovereign immunity.