A jury properly threw the book at a foreign graduate student who illegally imported and resold over the Web textbooks intended for overseas markets, a federal appeals panel in Manhattan ruled yesterday.

The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $600,000 jury verdict against Supap Kirtsaeng, who moved to the United States from Thailand to study math and reportedly grossed about $1 million reselling books shipped to him by friends and family.

The court sided with publisher John Wiley & Sons, which claimed its foreign editions — often printed on thinner paper, with lower-quality photos and illustrations — are marked for sale only in Europe, Asia Africa and the Middle East.

Kirtsaeng claimed buyers of legally produced copyrighted works can re-sell them.