Blue Ridge Anesthesia & Critical Care, Inc. v. Gidick

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• holding that a company has a legitimate business interest in barring employee-competitor's use of customer contacts
• holding that a three-year restrictive covenant was valid and enforceable, where the agreement prohibited the employees from competing with the company “within any of the territories serviced by” the employees during their employment
• noting the unenforceability of a provision prohibiting employment that competed with any branch of the former employer's operations when the former employee had no connection to some of those branches
• upholding a provision where it did not forbid former employees “from working in any capacity for a medical equipment company,” only from working in the medical industry in some role which would compete with the former’s employer’s business
• upholding provision that did not forbid employee from working in any capacity for a medical equipment company or from selling any type of equipment, but prohibited employee from working in the industry in a role that would compete with the business
• non-competition agreement reasonable because restriction protected against direct competition by prohibiting former employees from employment with another company in a position selling similar medical equipment to that sold by former employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).