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FREEMAN v. LI ZHU

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 10, 1994
209 A.D.2d 213 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

November 10, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.).


The IAS Court properly determined that the plaintiff had failed to meet his burden in opposing summary judgment of producing evidentiary proof, in admissible form, sufficient to establish the existence of material issues of fact requiring a trial with respect to the defendant's alleged breach of and the plaintiff's alleged entitlement to enforcement of an alleged oral employment agreement and oral nonsolicitation clause between the parties wherein the defendant, as a former employee of the plaintiff, had allegedly agreed not to utilize the plaintiff's allegedly confidential client and potential client lists for personal gain (Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 N.Y.2d 851, 853).

Solicitation of plaintiff's customers by defendant, as a former employee, is not actionable, nor is trade secret protection to be accorded to the names, addresses and telephone numbers of clients and potential clients of the plaintiff seeking immigration assistance, where, as here, the record reveals that the alleged confidential customer lists were readily ascertainable from nonconfidential sources by reference to, among other publications, local telephone listings (see, Columbia Ribbon Carbon Mfg. Co. v. A-1-A Corp., 42 N.Y.2d 496, 498).

We have considered the plaintiff's remaining claims and find them to be without merit.

Concur — Ellerin, J.P., Ross, Rubin and Nardelli, JJ.


Summaries of

FREEMAN v. LI ZHU

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 10, 1994
209 A.D.2d 213 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

FREEMAN v. LI ZHU

Case Details

Full title:RONALD W. FREEMAN, P.C., Appellant, v. LI ZHU, Respondent

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Nov 10, 1994

Citations

209 A.D.2d 213 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
618 N.Y.S.2d 316

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