HENRY KEEL, D/B/A MEDICAL BUSINESS CONSULTANTS, APPELLANT,
v.
QUALITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLEE
[*338] PER CURIAM.
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.
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- Renpak, Inc. v. Oppenheimer, 104 So. 2d 642 (Fla. 2d DCA 1958)
- Pure Foods, Inc. v. SIR Sirloin, Inc., 84 So. 2d 51 (Fla. 1955)
- Inland Rubber Corp. v. Helman, 237 So. 2d 291 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970)