  We study Wilson loops in holographic duals of the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM
quark-gluon plasma. For this we consider the Schwarzschild-$AdS_5$ and
Kerr-$AdS_5$ black holes, which are dual to the non-rotating and rotating QGPs,
correspondingly. From temporal Wilson loops we find the heavy quark potentials
in both backgrounds. For the temperature above the critical one we observe the
Coulomb-like behaviour of the potentials. We find that increasing the rotation
the interquark distance decreases, we also see that the increase of the
temperature yields the similar behaviour. Moreover, at high temperatures values
of the potentials in Kerr-$AdS_5$ are close to that one calculated in the
Schwarzschild-$AdS_5$ black hole. We also explore holographic light-like Wilson
loops from which the jet-quenching parameters of a fast parton propagating in
the QGP are extracted. We find that the rotation increases the value of the
jet-quenching parameter. However, at high temperatures the jet-quenching
parameters have a cubic dependence on the temperature as for the AdS black
brane.
