UPDATE: DraftKings and FanDuel Halt Utah Sports Event Contracts, Fanatics to Follow

• DraftKings and FanDuel have pulled back sports event contracts in Utah
• The two companies will no longer offer event contracts related to sports, politics, and novelties in the state
• The companies pulled the event contracts in the wake of increased litigation in the state

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Following a week filled with lawsuits and criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi in Utah, DraftKings and FanDuel both have made the decision to pull certain event contracts out of the Beehive State.

DraftKings pulled all event contracts related to sports, politics, and novelties from the state on Wednesday, Oct. 28, while FanDuel will pull those same markets from Utah today at 10 a.m. ET.

The decision to do so came after the state of Utah this week filed criminal charges against prediction market company Kalshi and its co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, alleging an undercover investigator for the Utah Attorney General’s Office successfully registered a Kalshi account in the state and used it to make several sports event contract trades.

Sports Event Contracts Pulled

A spokesperson for DraftKings Predictions confirmed the decision to Sports Betting Dime, noting that the offerings were pulled from the state late Wednesday night.

“Effective immediately, sports, novelty, political, and certain other event contracts are no longer available on DraftKings Predictions for customers physically located in Utah. Customers are still able to trade financial event contracts, including those related to stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrency. Any open positions customers hold in the affected markets will remain open and settle as normal. DraftKings remains committed to operating responsibly and transparently,” the spokesperson said.

DraftKings Prediction pulled the contracts from the state the same night Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed criminal charges against Mansour and Lopes Lara. Mansour and Lopes Lara each face a second-degree felony count of pattern of unlawful activity, 12 counts of online gambling promotion, a third-degree felony, and a count of general gambling promotion, also a third degree felony.

“Gambling is illegal in Utah, whether you place the bet, run the game, or promote it. Calling it a ‘prediction market’ doesn’t change what it is, and being federally registered doesn’t put a company above the law. A federal court has already ruled that Utah’s gambling laws apply to Kalshi. Kalshi kept taking bets from Utahns anyway. That is illegal, and we’re putting a stop to it,” Attorney General Brown said.

A FanDuel Predicts spokesperson confirmed the company will pull similar event contracts from the state today at 10 a.m. ET.

“Starting today at 10 a.m. ET, event contracts on sports, politics, and novelties will no longer be available to customers in Utah through FanDuel Predicts. Customers will still be able to trade on economic benchmarks and key financial indicators. Any positions held by customers will remain open and settled as expected,” the spokesperson said.

Fanatics Markets To Follow Next Week

Fanatics Markets announced today it will be discontinuing its event contract offerings in Utah starting Wednesday, Nov. 4 as well.

“Due to recent developments, we are stopping trade placement on Fanatics Markets in the state of Utah on November 4,” a Fanatics spokesperson told Sports Betting Dime.

Unlike FanDuel and DraftKings, Fanatics Markets will be ceasing all of its event contracts offerings in the Beehive State next week, not just sports, politics, and novelty markets.

Utah Levies Charges

A Kalshi spokesperson described the recent charges as “a crazy overreach” to Sports Betting Dime.

“This is a crazy overreach; Utah is clearly playing politics. We look forward to putting a stop to this in court, just like we did in Arizona,” the spokesperson told Sports Betting Dime.

According to the filed charges, a Utah Attorney General’s Office investigator, Scott Eggerman, used a Utah-based IP address to create an account with Kalshi and successfully trade several sports event contracts on various games played across the country. He successfully traded a number of sports event contracts on the outcome of NFL, MLB, MLS, NHL, and NCAA men’s football matchups in September.

The investigator successfully placed 12 wagers in Utah using his Kalshi account in late September. Each transaction resulted in a fee deducted from Eggerman’s account. According to the state, from Sept. 13, 2026, through Sept. 26, 2026, Kalshi “derived an economic benefit other than personal winnings from the facilitation of multiple gambling wagers placed on its platform by Agent Scott Eggerman while he was in Salt Lake County and Davis County, Utah, and aided Agent Eggerman in completing those gambling wagers, and knowingly owned and controlled the Kalshi online platform in the state of Utah.”

Utah is one of just two states in the country to not have any legalized form of gambling.

Utah, the federal government, and Kalshi have engaged in legal back-and-forth over the last several months regarding the regulation of event contracts and alleged illegal gambling in the state.