What is the name of your state? Florida.
I am an independent sales person with a contract to sell the software products of company "A". My contract explicitly prohibits me from selling or promoting competitive products. Company "A" is a wholly owned subsidiary of company "B". Company "B" has a distribution/marketing agreement with company "C", even though some company "C" products compete with company "A" products.
From time to time the sales person from company "C" and I vie for the same clients and dollars, though our respective products focus on differing feature sets. In the course of one particular sales opportunity, the sales person from company "C" wrote and distributed email to executives in all three companies that I was selling/promoting competitive products. At very least, this action: 1.) undermined the trust company "A" placed in me; 2.) threatened my contract with company "A"; 3.) undermined the cooperation (in the form of referrals) extended by company "B" executives and sales people to me.
After heated words and a concall in which a fair number of the recipients of the poison emails participated, the matter was formally dropped. However, Though I cannot verify it, my suspicions are that the sales rep for company "C" continues to "poisoning the water", and I would like it stopped.
I get the impression that the emails constitute per se libel in Florida.
Craig
I am an independent sales person with a contract to sell the software products of company "A". My contract explicitly prohibits me from selling or promoting competitive products. Company "A" is a wholly owned subsidiary of company "B". Company "B" has a distribution/marketing agreement with company "C", even though some company "C" products compete with company "A" products.
From time to time the sales person from company "C" and I vie for the same clients and dollars, though our respective products focus on differing feature sets. In the course of one particular sales opportunity, the sales person from company "C" wrote and distributed email to executives in all three companies that I was selling/promoting competitive products. At very least, this action: 1.) undermined the trust company "A" placed in me; 2.) threatened my contract with company "A"; 3.) undermined the cooperation (in the form of referrals) extended by company "B" executives and sales people to me.
After heated words and a concall in which a fair number of the recipients of the poison emails participated, the matter was formally dropped. However, Though I cannot verify it, my suspicions are that the sales rep for company "C" continues to "poisoning the water", and I would like it stopped.
I get the impression that the emails constitute per se libel in Florida.
Craig