An international youth hockey club is alleging a former employee engaged in a civil conspiracy to undermine its business.
Play Hockey USA has filed a lawsuit in a Minnesota district court claiming a former events director violated the state’s trade secrets law after intentionally harming the company while still employed.
Play Hockey was co-founded by a Canadian venture capitalists and operates in the U.S., Canada and six European nations.
Play Hockey alleges the ex-employee made adverse business decisions and moves in the months before he resigned, according to The Minnesota Star-Tribune.
The lawsuit claims the ex-employee was plotting to start a rival club with another ex-employee, but did not follow through. He is accused of joining a third club and divulging proprietary information including customer and vendor lists, future tournament schedules and venue contracts to Northand Hockey, his current employer.
The ex-employee denies nthe charges — and claims that even if they were true, they would not be illegal since the information in question is public knowledge.
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