Men Women NY Model Mgmt., Inc. v. Ford Models, Inc

In Men Women NY Model Mgmt., Inc. v. Ford Models, Inc., 32 Misc.3d 1236[A], 938 N.Y.S.2d 228, 2011 NY Slip Op 51595[U] [Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty. Aug. 15, 2011], it was alleged that, for the purpose of evaluating a potential transaction to acquire Men Women NY Model Management ("Women"), the defendant, Ford Models, Inc. ("Ford"), had a confidentiality agreement with Women, granting it access to Women's confidential sensitive business information. It was further alleged that Ford's purchase offer was ultimately rejected by Women as inadequate, and that thereafter, Ford recruited Women's employees but asked them to delay their departures for a short period of time, "further encouraging the diversion of Women's modeling relationships and business opportunities to Ford." Women further alleged that "Ford was attempting to 'take' what it could not 'buy' by poaching plaintiff's top executives and inducing them to breach their fiduciary duties to Women by encouraging other employees to leave Women" and that ultimately 9 of Women's 35 employees resigned to join Ford.