Tradeshift, Inc. v. BuyerQuest, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TRADESHIFT, INC., Case No. 20-cv-01294-RS (TSH)
Plaintiff,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 69, 73, 74, 75 BUYERQUEST, INC., Defendant.
12 In this case Tradeshift alleges that BuyerQuest interfered with Tradeshift’s June 2019 contract to provide software and services to Smucker. BuyerQuest was Tradeshift’s subcontractor on the project, but Tradeshift alleges that BuyerQuest breached its contractual and good faith obligations to Tradeshift and secretly worked to convince Smucker to terminate the Tradeshift contract and enter into a new contract with BuyerQuest for 100% of the work. Separately, Tradeshift has sued Smucker in New York for breach of contract. Tradeshift contends that BuyerQuest’s CEO Jack Mulloy was behind the interference scheme and that he had communications with Smucker’s Jason Barr. The basic issue we are dealing with is Tradeshift’s efforts to get the emails between Mulloy and Barr that the two men sent from their…