Boisen v. Petersen Flying Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that covenant not to compete was unreasonable and unenforceable in part because employee had no personal and business-based contact with employer’s customers or prospective customers
• affirming denial of injunctive relief after observing that the training given to employee was “no different from that which would have been received from another employer” engaged in the same business
• Restrictive covenants in employment contracts must satisfy three requirements and are not enforceable merely to protect the employer from ordi nary competition
• in distinguishing between “ordinaiy” and “unfair” competition, courts, frequently focus on employee’s opportunity to appropriate employer’s goodwill by initiating personal contacts with employer’s customers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).