MARY ANASTASIA NAEGELE, Appellant, vs. BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Respondent., 272 S.W.3d 385

Summary

The employee worked for a health care company for 12 years before she accepted an offer with a new employer that competed with the health care company. The new employer required the employee to sign a noncompete agreement which restricted her ability to use information she obtained while working for her new employer and allowed her new employer to seek an injunction and attorneys' fees and costs if the employee violated the agreement or threatened a violation. Seven months after the employee signed the noncompete agreement, she returned to the health care company where she previously worked, and she sued the employer, seeking a judgment declaring that she had not violated the noncompete agreement. The court of appeals found that the employer had a protected interest in customers the employee brought with her when she changed jobs, and the circuit court did not err when it issued an injunction prohibiting the employee from contacting those customers after she returned to the health care...