Trigo ADR Americas, LLC v. OEM Logistics, LLC

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

3 TRIGO ADR AMERICAS, LLC, Case No.: 23-cv-2219-AGS-MMP 4 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

5 v.

MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF 8)

6 OEM LOGISTICS, LLC, et al., 7 Defendants. 8 9 In its motion to dismiss, the defense argues that plaintiff fails to state a claim of 10 trade-secret misappropriation and that many causes of action are preempted. The Court 11 agrees that five of the state-law claims are preempted. 12 BACKGROUND 13 Plaintiff TRIGO ADR Americas, LLC, is in the business of helping aerospace 14 manufacturers timely fulfill their government contracts, sometimes worth “billions of 15 dollars.” (See ECF 6, at 2–3.) Specifically, TRIGO manages third-party suppliers for these 16 contracts to “ensure on-time and on-quality delivery.” (See id.) To that end, TRIGO 17 developed both a proprietary process for vetting suppliers and an “intranet-based tool” that 18 calculates the resources needed to manage each supplier. (Id. at 6–7.) 19 After leaving TRIGO’s predecessor, defendants Steve Clarke and Jay Nicholas 20 founded a…