Mealey's (January 18, 2019, 2:23 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Jan. 16 ruled that a real estate brokerage failed to demonstrate a substantial likelihood of success on the merits or a sufficiently serious question going to the merits of its request for a preliminary injunction prohibiting a former independent contractor from disclosing its confidential and proprietary information to a competitor for which the former employee now works (L.I. City Ventures v. Urban Compass Inc., No. 18-5853, S.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7782)....