CoStar hit with trade secrets lawsuit over dueling real-estate websites
“According to the complaint, Kaminsky headed Realtor.com’s “News and Insights” platform until he was laid off in January. The lawsuit said that Kaminsky took a similar role at Homes.com in March.
Move said it discovered last month that Kaminsky had stolen documents related to business strategy, industry contacts and “a vast array of other competitively sensitive and valuable information” for CoStar.”
Blake Brittain, Reuters
Shades of 2014 when Move sued Zillow over the departure of Errol Samuelson and Curt Beardsley. That was pretty messy and Zillow finally settled (without admitting any wrong doing) for $130 Million. Someone once told me that you are never really successful until you start getting sued. So I guess it’s official that Homes.com is getting traction.
Funny that it’s usually CoStar doing the suing. It will be interesting what tidbits come up in discovery if things get that far.
Stolen Industry Contacts. Dude probably knows the Scarf King’s personal cell.