Court Opinion

ID: 9450254
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:40:04.886212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:13.252758
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*61ALDRICH, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
I agree with respect to Count 1, but not as to Count 2. Whatever the relationship between the parties I find it hard to see how the initially confidential list of Allied’s “prospects” on which it had done “missionary work” became Elnar’s simply because, as the jury found, Allied broke its admittedly terminable-at-will agreement to buy only Elnar keys. But quite apart from this I cannot consider it proper competition to tell Allied’s prospects, or any other person’s, that Elnar was the sole producer of golden keys, or that Allied was no longer in a position to supply them. Indeed, it was only because Allied was completely free and able to engage in the key business that it failed on Count 1. The district court did not dismiss Count 2, nor should it have. Since I am in the minority on this, however, I will not deal with the errors which, in my opinion, it did commit under this count, but merely note my dissent.