CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A professional model from Northeast Ohio is seeking at least a half a million dollars from a Columbus photographer who she accused of breaking their contract after he sold her photographs to Playboy Enterprises and at least three dozen other adult entertainment and pornographic websites.

In the lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, Nicole Forni said the fraudulent breach of contract by photographer Joshua Resnick has caused her images to "go viral" on pornography sites.

Forni accused Resnick in her lawsuit of breach of contract, fraudulent inducement and fraud, and the 38 other defendants of breach of agreement.

Forni has asked a judge to issue a preliminary permanent injunction against all of the defendants preventing them from using or distributing her images, which otherwise "will cause her to suffer irreparable harm," she said in the 25-page document.

Resnick could not be reached for comment. Glamour photographs of Forni continued to be displayed on Resnick's website and on other modeling sites easily accessed on the Internet on Monday.

According to the lawsuit, Resnick contacted Forni in January 2013 and offered her a so-called Trade for Portfolio agreement. Under the arrangement, a model agrees to work with a photographer without compensation, although each party adds the photos to his or her portfolio.

Forni said she agreed to the deal on the condition that Resnick promised that none of her photos would be used in any "adult-oriented, pornographic, or obscene manner."

The agreement was not in writing, however, the lawsuit said. Instead, Forni signed a "Universal Adult Model Release for All Agencies" document.

Almost immediately after the completion of the photo shoot, Resnick began to sell Forni's photos to various purveyors of adult-oriented and/or sexual websites, including Playboy, Forni alleges in the lawsuit.

Forni said she discovered Resnick's sales activities after family members and friends saw the photographs and alerted her. Further investigation found her images were being used on the covers of erotic books, and were being used to promote adult sexually-oriented products and services, "including but not limited to prostitution, sexual products, sexual services, sex trades, and stripper services," she said.

"The discovery by the plaintiff and her family of the use of her photos ... has caused (Forni) serious emotional distress and humiliation," the lawsuit said. The distribution of her photos on adult sites also has caused Forni serious damage to her modeling reputation, she said.