A popular disc jockey signed a three-year contract with a radio station under which she agreed that if she quit her job at the station, she would not go on the air with any competing station for at least six months. A year into the relationship, she left for a higher paying position with a competing station.

However, for the first six months, she did not broadcast any shows for her new employer. Instead, she engaged in promotional activities and winning over advertisers from her former station, which sued her and her new affiliation.

Do you think the disc jockey should be forbidden by court order from working in promotional and sales activities for the new station? Should the court find that her knowledge of her former employer’s relationships with its advertisers is a trade secret? See Saga Communications of New England v.

Voornas [No. 2000 ME 156 (Maine Supr. 2000)].