NOT FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FREEMAN INVESTMENT 

MANAGEMENT CO., LLC, a Delaware 

corporation, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

 v. 

FRANK RUSSELL COMPANY, a 

Washington corporation, DBA Russell 

Investment Group, 

Defendant-Appellee.

No. 16-56511 

D.C. No. 

3:13-cv-02856-JLS-RBB 

MEMORANDUM*

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of California

Janis L. Sammartino, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 15, 2018

San Francisco, California

Before: WATFORD and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF,** Senior 

District Judge.

Freeman Investment Management Co., LLC (“FIMCO”) appeals the district 

 

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent 

except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

** The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, Senior United States District Judge for 

the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

FILED

JUL 2 2018

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
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court’s decision granting summary judgment to Frank Russell Company 

(“Russell”) on FIMCO’s trade secret and breach of contract claims. We have 

jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we AFFIRM.

“A grant of summary judgment should be affirmed only if the evidence, read 

in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, demonstrates that there is no 

genuine issue as to any material fact, and the moving party is entitled to judgment 

as a matter of law.” Keenan v. Allan, 91 F.3d 1275, 1278 (9th Cir. 1996). “[I]t is 

not our task, or that of the district court, to scour the record in search of a genuine 

issue of triable fact.” Id. at 1279 (quoting Richards v. Combined Ins. Co., 55 F.3d 

247, 251 (7th Cir. 1995)). Rather, “[w]e rely on the nonmoving party to identify 

. . . the evidence that precludes summary judgment.” Id. (quoting Richards, 55 

F.3d at 251). FIMCO has not done so here with respect to either of its claims. 

To demonstrate entitlement to relief for misappropriation of a trade secret

under California law, which the parties agree governs this claim, a plaintiff must 

show “(1) possession by the plaintiff of a trade secret; (2) the defendant’s 

misappropriation of the trade secret . . . and (3) resulting or threatened injury to the 

plaintiff.” See Silvaco Data Sys. v. Intel Corp., 109 Cal. Rptr. 3d 27, 38 (Ct. App. 

2010), disapproved of on other grounds by Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court, 246 

P.3d 877 (Cal. 2011). A trade secret is defined as information that: “(1) [d]erives 

independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known 
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to the public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure 

or use; and (2) [i]s the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the 

circumstances to maintain its secrecy.” Cal. Civ. Code § 3426.1(d). FIMCO has 

pointed to no evidence showing that any of the information in its 492-paragraph

trade secret identification document (“TSID”) is “not . . . generally known to the 

public.” Id. Nor has FIMCO done so with respect to its narrowed list of eight 

trade secrets. We refuse to do this work for it. See Indep. Towers of Wash. v. 

Washington, 350 F.3d 925, 929 (9th Cir. 2003) (“[J]udges are not like pigs, 

hunting for truffles.” (quoting United States v. Dunkel, 927 F.2d 955, 956 (7th Cir. 

1991))).

For the same reason, the district court was correct to grant summary 

judgment to Russell on FIMCO’s breach of contract claim. The non-disclosure 

agreement at issue defined confidential information as “nonpublic information that 

the disclosing party designates as being confidential or which, under the 

circumstances surrounding its disclosure, ought to be treated as confidential.” As 

previously described, FIMCO has not pointed to any evidence in the record 

showing that any piece of information it disclosed to Russell was nonpublic. We

decline to “scour the record” in search of that information. Keenan, 91 F.3d at 

1279; see also Indep. Towers of Wash., 350 F.3d at 929.

AFFIRMED.