Amex Distributing Co., Inc. v. Mascari

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting an agreement prohibiting terminated employee from doing business with former employer’s customers for “some duration” under three years would have been justifiable
• noting employer-employee restrictive covenants are disfavored and strictly construed against the employer
• accommodating right to work, right to contract, and public’s right to competition
• courts more lenient in enforcing restrictive covenants connected to sale of business because of need to effectively transfer goodwill
• “If the selling or servicing relationship is 11 relatively complex . . . Courts seldom criticize restraints of six months or a year.”
• noncompetition covenant overbroad because covenantee had no legitimate interest in denying covenantor right to compete with customer covenantee had not serviced for three years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).