Case: Trade Secrets/Pleadings (S.D. Fla.)

The counterclaim for misappropriation of trade secrets under the Florida Uniform Trade Secrets Act is dismissed in VVIG Inc.'s trademark action. The alleged “secret e-juice information” doesn’t meet the relatively low sufficient particularity standard for a trade secret: the counterclaim’s definition is a grab-bag of information so broad and conclusory as to be nonsensical — referring to all necessary know-how, standards and specifications for the e-juice products, including all information concerning the business affairs, products, marketing systems, technology, customers, end users, financial affairs, and accounting statistical data of the defendants. In short, the counterclaim fails to notify VVIG what aspects ...