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HALLMARK CARDS, INC. v. MONITOR CLIPPER PARTNERS

No. 13-1905.

758 F.3d 1051 (2014)

HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee v. MONITOR CLIPPER PARTNERS, LLC, Defendant-Appellant Monitor Clipper Equity Partners, II, LP; Monitor Company Group Limited Partnership; Mark Pocharski; Robert Lurie; Adam Doctoroff; Steven Levin; Annica Blake; Robert Samuelson; RPG Investment Holdings, LLC; Charles Yoon; William Young; Mark Thomas; Sullivan & Worcester, LLP; Laura Steinberg; Rouse Hendricks German May, PC; Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 15, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Aisenbrey , Kansas City, MO, ( Charles W. German , George Verschelden , Daniel E. Blegen , Jeremy Suhr , Christina D. Arnone , Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Linda T. Coberly , Chicago, IL, ( David Field Oliver , Stacey R. Gilman , Laura K. Brooks , Kansas City, MO, Steven. L. Manchel , Newton, MA, Brook R. Long , Michael David Bess , Chicago, IL, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WOLLMAN, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Hallmark Cards, Inc. (Hallmark), hired Monitor Company Group, L.P. (Monitor), to compile research on the greeting cards market. Monitor transmitted confidential market research it had prepared for Hallmark to a private equity firm called Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC (Clipper), the defendant in this litigation. Clipper used this information to purchase and subsequently manage a competitor of Hallmark's called Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc....

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