SKF USA, INC. v. Bjerkness

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge.

For over thirty years, Preventive Maintenance Company, Inc. (“PMCI”) provided so-called “reliability services” — essentially, the monitoring and maintenance of factory machines and equipment — for its customers. In January 2007, Plaintiff SKF USA (“SKF”) purchased PMCI’s stock and merged PMCI’s business operations into SKF’s Reliability Systems division. Defendants Dale Bjerkness, Kevin Koch, Joseph Sever, and Walter Remick all worked for PMCI prior to the merger and continued to work for SKF for approximately a year and a half…