Agent’s Customer List Was Not A Trade Secret, Idaho Supreme Court Rules

(December 19, 2019, 2:30 PM EST) -- BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho state trial court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of a plaintiff on a trade secret misappropriation counterclaim in a declaratory relief action filed by an insurance company’s former agent because a list of prospective clients the agent compiled after his termination from the company, which contained some of the company’s customers that he later solicited while working for a competitor does not constitute a trade secret, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled Dec. 17 (Brian D. Trumble v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Idaho, et al., No. 46133, Idaho Sup., 2019 Ida. LEXIS 231)....

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