I encountered this problem earlier. You can use this kind of syntax to exclude transitive dependencies...."net.debasishg" %% "sjson" % "0.12" exclude("org.scala-lang", "scala-library"),"org.jclouds.api" % "filesystem" % "1.2.1" excludeAll(ExclusionRule(organization = "org.clojure")),...For more information on this, check out SBT's docs. http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0.2/SBTDependencies