NEWARK ELECTRONICS, a division of D-A LUBRICANT COMPANY, INC., an Indiana corporation, Plaintiff, v. CRAIG K. WARNIMONT, Defendant., 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15813

Summary

The former employee entered into a written employment agreement with his former employer's parent company. The agreement contained a non-competition covenant. Upon resigning from his employment with the former employer, the former employee went to work for a known competitor. As a result, the former employer brought an action to enforce the covenant not to compete. The court found that the former employee was professional staff to executive and management personnel as contemplated by Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-2-113 (1986). The court held that the two-year time and the 11 western state restrictions placed on the former employee upon leaving the former employer were reasonable and did not unreasonably foreclose the former employee from obtaining employment elsewhere. The court found that the agreement did not benefit the former employer in a fashion to be disproportionate to any detriment suffered by the former employee. The court found that the agreement between the former employee and the ...