Storagecraft Technology Corp. v. Kirby

GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

James Kirby says the jury’s award against him is too much. True, he helped start and served as a director of Storage-Craft, a computer software company. True, after a falling out with his colleagues he stole the computer source code on which the company’s products depend. True, he shared the source code with NetJapan, a rival company that quickly produced a competing software product much like StorageCraft’s. But the jury’s $2.92 million trade secret misappropriation award is still too much. Too much, Mr. Kirby says, because he never used the secret for his own personal…