Snelling Services v. Diamond Staffing Services CA1/2

INTRODUCTION

Defendants Diamond Staffing Services, Inc. (Diamond) and Rod Santoro appeal from a preliminary injunction in favor of plaintiff Snelling Services, LLC (Snelling), on Snelling’s causes of action for unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets against defendants. The injunction issued upon the court’s finding that Snelling was likely to prevail on the merits of its claims for unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets and that Snelling would suffer greater harm if the injunction were not issued than defendants would if the injunction issued. The preliminary injunction (1) prohibits defendants from directly or indirectly using, disclosing or acquiring Snelling’s trade secrets or confidential information, including but not limited to, confidential customer lists, customer information, pricing and other specified information related to Snelling’s business operations, strategies,

1 finances or plans, whether based on actual documents or memory of such information; (2) prohibits defendants from allowing any former Snelling employee whom Diamond now employs from soliciting any Snelling customer with whom they worked or for whom they provided any…