W. R. Grace & Co. v. Mouyal

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that in making its determination the court looks to the duration, territorial coverage, and scope of activity
• enjoining violation of non-solicitation covenant restricting solicitation of customers with whom departing employee had contact while employed with the party seeking to enforce the covenant
• upholding non-compete covenant that had no geographical restriction but prohibited employee from contacting customers he contacted during the last two years of his tenure at employer
• restricting the solicitation of customers to those with whom the employee had contact during the last two years of his employment
• if a non-solicitation covenant covers only the employer’s customers “which the employee contacted during h[er] tenure with the employer, there is no need for a territorial restriction expressed in geographic terms”
• “The focus of this case is the absence of an express geographic description of the territorial restriction contained in the no[n]-solicitation clause of the employment contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).