Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. v. Kevin Hennkens

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

After Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. fired Kevin Hennkens, a customer service representative, he began soliciting customers in his former trade area for a Safety-Kleen competitor. Safety-Kleen filed this diversity action, seeking to enforce a one-year restrictive covenant in Hennkens’s employment agreement with Safety-Kleen. After an evidentiary hearing, the district court 1 granted Safety-Kleen’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Hennkens appeals, arguing that Safety-Kleen failed to prove irreparable injury and the likelihood of success on the merits, and that the…