Jim Liautaud, an Individual and Jimmy John's Incorporated, an Illinois Corporation v. Michael Liautaud, an Individual

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• observing that any “valid transaction may support a covenant not to compete” under Illinois law, and enforcing a noncompetition agreement made as a condition for one party gifting his trade secrets to another
• rejecting as unreasonable a restrictive covenant that prevented competition “anywhere in the world”—regardless of whether “trade secrets” were used—and restricted the employee’s activities “for the rest of his life”
• In Illinois, the existence of a contract is a question of law “when the basic facts are not in dispute”
• “Generally, courts will uphold a restriction on competition that is coextensive with the area where the promisee is doing business.”
• \a party may not recover damages for unjust enrichment pursuant to a gift relationship\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).