JTL Consulting, L.L.C. v. Shanahan
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiffs, a consulting company and its insurance broker client, appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant, a former member of the consulting company. The trial court entered summary judgment in defendant’s favor on Count I of plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleging breaches of customer non-solicitation clauses and awarded attorney’s fees and costs to defendant. We affirm for the reasons that 1) the consulting company did not have a protectable interest in the customers of its client, the insurance broker, and therefore could not enforce a covenant not to…
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