Fada International Corp. v. Cheung

Elaintiff does not allege that its former employee, defendant Cheung, stole its customer list or any confidential information. Rather, it maintains that the use of its client contact information, of which Cheung was aware from her 20 years on the job, to solicit business for her new company constituted a misappropriation of confidential information. Defendants did not steal the information, and since plaintiff’s “customers are readily ascertainable outside the employer’s business as prospective users or consumers of the employer’s services or products,” the trade secret protection does not…