Trigo ADR Americas, LLC v. OEM Logistics, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

v.

MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF 8)

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