INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RODRIGO KEDE de FREITAS LIMA, Defendant-Appellant., 833 Fed. Appx. 911

Summary

A preliminary injunction was affirmed since a former employee did not demonstrate the district court's factual findings were clearly erroneous; the court concluded his job provided him with access to his employer's trade secrets, namely its confidential plans regarding its strategy to acquire new cloud computing clients in Latin America, the exact geographic market he would be overseeing at Microsoft, and he would perform substantially similar work with his new employer in an arena where his former employer was a direct competitor.