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reversing temporary injunction prohibiting former employee from soliciting the business of his former employer because the customer information was not shown to be confidential or a business or trade secret
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No. 87-1694.
November 10, 1987.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Jon I. Gordon, J.
Herbert A. Warren and Richard A. Warren, Miami, for appellant.
Akerman, Senterfitt Eidson and Kirk L. Burns, Miami, for appellee.
Before NESBITT, DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
We reverse the order under review which temporarily enjoined the defendant, Henry Keel, a former employee of Quality Medical Systems, Inc., from "soliciting business . . . with [sic] any of Quality Medical's existing customers," as the evidence adduced at the injunction hearing simply does not demonstrate, as it must, that the customer information was confidential or was a business or trade secret. Pure Foods v. Sir Sirloin, Inc., 84 So.2d 51 (Fla. 1955); Inland Rubber Corp. v. Helman, 237 So.2d 291 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970); Renpak, Inc. v. Oppenheimer, 104 So.2d 642 (Fla. 2d DCA 1958).
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.