Blair

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division ROBERT BLAIR AND SPRINGSHOT, Case No. 22-cv-06000-LB

INC.,

ORDER DENYING MOTION Plaintiffs, Re: ECF No. 7 v.

INFORM SOFTWARE CORPORATION,

15 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Robert Blair is a California-based sales executive who worked for defendant INFORM Software from 2014 through August 2022 and then left to work for plaintiff Springshot in September 2022. Both companies sell aviation software. In letters in August and September 2022, INFORM invoked non-competition and customer non-solicitation covenants in Mr. Blair’s employment agreement. The plaintiffs then sued INFORM for declaratory relief to invalidate the covenants, charging that they violate California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL). INFORM moved to dismiss on the ground that the employment contract — signed by Mr. Blair in 2014 in Florida, before he moved to California in 2015 —…