[zekevermillion]

In general, restrictive covenants are enforceable in New York to the extent that they protect the employer's "legitimate business interests". The leading case in NY last time I checked, a few years ago, was BDO Seidman, if you want to look that up on Google scholar.

Usually if there's a noncompete case, there is also a trade secret misappropriation claim at the same time. So unfortunately there is little chance that a complaint based on overly broad noncompete would just be dismissed as a matter of law in NY, regardless of how stupid the thing is.

[KSS42]

Here's another case.

International Business Machines Corp. v. Papermaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Machine...

[zekevermillion]

Oh, that's a good one!