Specialty Rental Tools & Supply, LP v. Shoemaker

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Specialty Rental Tools & Supply, LP (“STS”) sued its former employee, Defendant-Appellee William P. Shoemaker, Sr., to enforce a covenant not to compete. STS appeals the district court’s grant of Shoemaker’s summary judgment motion that dismissed STS’s action with prejudice. We affirm.

I. FACTS

For a period of almost ten years preceding March 1, 2002, Shoemaker owned and operated Southeastern Rentals, LLC (“Southeastern”), an oilfield related service company. In March, 2001, a representative of STS, also an oilfield related business, approached…