K-2 Ski Company, a Corporation v. Head Ski Co., Inc., a Delaware Corporation and William Crocker

K-2 Ski Company commenced this action for a permanent injunction to prohibit Head Ski Co., a competitor, from wrongfully procuring and exploiting K-2’s trade secrets.

The matter is here on Head’s appeal from the order of the District Court granting K-2 a preliminary injunction against Head and William Crocker, K-2’s former employee who is presently working for Head.

K-2 alleged in its verified complaint that Crocker had served as superintendent of all its manufacturing operations; that during such employment he became well acquainted with the processes, procedures and materials which it followed and used in the manufacture and production of its successfully marketed fiberglass skis; that such processes, etc., constituted trade secrets; that Head, following a series of secret meetings with Crocker, persuaded him to quit K-2 and go to work for Head and that Head likewise is seeking to persuade other K-2 employees to switch employers “in the furtherance of a plan or scheme to induce the wrongful disclosure to it of K-2’s trade secrets. . . .” K-2 further alleged, on information and belief, that Crocker’s present employment “will necessarily result in the wrongful disclosure” of K-2…