{"id":322,"date":"2013-12-15T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelsmithlaw.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/social-media-and-two-remarkabl.html"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:43:20","slug":"social-media-and-two-remarkabl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/social-media-and-two-remarkabl\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Two Remarkably Unremarkable Contract Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider these two relatively recent cases, one from Massachusetts and one from Indiana, both involving allegations of breach of contract through the use of social media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A vice president of a recruiting firm leaves her job and goes to work for another recruiting firm. She has a covenant not to compete with her first employer that prohibits her from providing recruiting services within a specified list of &#8220;fields of placement&#8221; and within a specified geographic area. She updates her LinkedIn profile to reflect the new job. A message goes out to her list of over 500 contacts, including a number of her former employer&#8217;s customers. Her former employer sues, alleging (among other things) that her LinkedIn update violated the covenant not to compete.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement between an IT contractor and one of its subcontractors prohibits the subcontractor from soliciting or inducing the contractor&#8217;s employees to leave their jobs. The subcontractor posts a job opening on LinkedIn where it could be viewed by anyone who had joined a particular public group. One of the contractor&#8217;s employees sees the job posting, contacts the president of the subcontractor, and expresses an interest in the job. At a later meeting, the employee tells the subcontractor his compensation requirements and what he is looking for in a job. The subcontractor makes an offer of employment, and it is accepted. The contractor sues the subcontractor for breach of the covenant not to solicit its employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/social-media-and-two-remarkabl\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Social Media and Two Remarkably Unremarkable Contract Cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider these two relatively recent cases, one from Massachusetts and one from Indiana, both involving allegations of breach of contract through the use of social media: A vice president of a recruiting firm leaves her job and goes to work for another recruiting firm. 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