Bessemer Trust Co., N.A. v. Branin

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• noting that the Mohawk doctrine prohibits “a voluntary selling owner of a business from soliciting its former customers”
• finding, under New York law which has an implied covenant against soliciting former customers upon the sale of a business, that “[t]here is no hard and fast rule in determining whether the seller of ‘good will’ has improperly solicited his former clients”
• declining to create a “hard and fast rule”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).