Marine Contractors Co. Inc. v. Hurley

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• explaining that ordinary competition is not a recognized business interest supporting enforceability under Massachusetts law
• explaining that ordinary competition is not a recognized business interest supporting enforceability under Massachusetts law
• finding that non-compete lasting less than three years was not excessive
• rejecting “the notion that consideration to support a promise must flow only from the promisee”
• upholding district court’s revision of covenant from five to three years as reasonable against seven-year employee, where decree granting specific performance did not issue for two years after termination, during which employee had been actively competing
• upholding 100-mile restriction in accordance with geographic spread of customer base

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).