Autonation, Inc. v. O'BRIEN

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• requiring that specialized or extraordinary training under Florida law “exceed[] what would be common or typical in the industry”
• finding no extraordinary training where there was no specialized training that went beyond what is normal oi'typical in the industry
• finding no legitimate business interest in protecting training where employee “was not required to attend the various training. seminars and only ‘popped in and out’ of the meetings,”
• finding a prohibition on working in “any geographic space in which [former employer] operates” reasonably necessary to protect confidential business information relevant to the markets in which it operates
• finding a prohibition on working in “any geographic space in which [former employer] operates” reasonably necessary to protect confidential business information relevant to the markets in which it operates, which included 75 dealerships nationwide
• finding company’s highly specialized information not otherwise publicly available, including Best Practices policies, Peer Performance Reports, and information disclosed at Monthly Operating Review Meetings, to be protectable legitimate business interests under a covenant not to compete

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).