State of Iowa v. John Michael Harker

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• finding that a former employee has a “duty under New York law not to use his former employer’s trade secrets against the employer”
• applying New York law and finding that a former employee cannot disclose confidential information obtained from his former employer even after termination of that employment
• relying on former employee's acknowledgement that a breach of his agreement would cause \irreparable injury\ to the employer
• affirming extension of trade secret protection where confidential information could only be duplicated “with great difficulty”
• affirming preliminary injunction where defendant claimed he had not removed any confidential documents from his former place of employment
• explaining that customer lists are protectible as trade secrets when the “list [is] developed by a business through substantial effort and kept in confidence[,] . . . provided the information it contains is not otherwise readily ascertainable” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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