A famous New York City hotel, Hotel Lux, is noted for its food as well as its lu

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A famous New York City hotel, Hotel Lux, is noted for its food as well as its luxury accommodations. Hotel Lux contracts with a famous chef, Chef Perlee, to become its head chef at $10,000 per month. The contract states that should Perlee leave the employment of Hotel Lux for any reason, he will not work as a chef for any hotel or restaurant in New York, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania for a period of one year. During the fi rst six months of the contract, Hotel Lux heavily advertises Perlee as its head chef, and business at the hotel is excellent. Then a dispute arises between the hotel management and Perlee, and Perlee terminates his employment. One month later, he is hired by a famous New Jersey restaurant just across the New York state line. Hotel Lux learns of Perlee

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Hotel Lux will have a strong case as Perlee has left the job himself and took up a job in New Jersey which is against the contract that he signed. However the contracts states that he cannot work as a chef in the New Jersey area, hence if Perlee accpeted the job at a New Jersey restaurant as say with some other title like say chief cuisine manager or something like that then Hotel Lux's case will be weak.

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