Court Has Jurisdiction Over 1 Defendant In Trade Secrets Suit, Judge Rules

Mealey's (July 18, 2019, 5:27 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — In a July 2 opinion, a federal judge in New Jersey ruled that a steel rack systems manufacturer has sufficiently shown that the court has personal jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s claims against its former employee in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit, but not for claims against the former employee’s current employer based on the former employee’s signing of a noncompetition agreement (Frazier Industrial Co. v. Nicklaus M. Logrecco, et al., No. 18-12426, D. N.J., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112233)....