United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action for breach of a covenant not to compete, an injunction against defendant is affirmed where defendant failed to show that the district court clearly erred in finding that defendant's confidential information constituted a legitimate business interest that justified the non-compete covenant. However, the damages award in favor of plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff failed to establish that defendant's solicitation of a client for plaintiff's competitor resulted in plaintiff's loss of the project that was the basis of the damages award.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2009
• Published 07/30/2009

Judges

• TRAGER, District Judge:, Before BARKETT and FAY, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Beverly A. Pohl, Broad & Cassel, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Daniel A. Miller, Broad & Cassel, West Palm Beach, FL, Randall L. Hagen, Law Office of Randall L. Hagen, LLC, Columbia, MD, for Defendant-Appellant., Patrick Lee Coyle and Christopher C. Marquardt, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Mark Vasco, Alston & Bird, Charlotte, NC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.