Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Shigg

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• observing that the “element of bad faith” is central to the misappropriation theory of unfair competition under New York law
• noting that to sustain a common law claim for unfair competition, “the plaintiffs must show that the defendants misappropriated the plaintiffs’ labors, skills, expenditures, or good will and displayed some element of bad faith in doing so”
• precluding recovery absent a showing that defendants “displayed some element of bad faith”
• “As to the . . . cause of action alleging common-law unfair competition, to sustain such a claim, the plaintiffs must show that the defendants misappropriated the plaintiff’s labors, skills, expenditures, or good will and displayed some element of bad faith in doing so.”

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