4. Your salesperson quits and "steals" your customers, denying you future profits. You try to take them to court. If you don't have a written contract with the salesperson, your relationship is terminable "at-will" and without consequence. No one "owns" a customer.
5. You place orders with a supplier who goes around you and accepts direct orders from "your" customer. The U.C.C. comes to the rescue. Your supplier cannot circumvent a commercial relationship to obtain an advantage at your expense. And this is enforceable without a written contract because you are a "merchant" in our "trade," and the supplier is a "trade" sub-contractor with an obligation to respect—not take advantage of—your "trade secret." Not only are actual damages in order, but probably consequential (lost profits) and even punitive (wrongdoing) damages.
- People:
- Vincent Mallardi