A Non-Compete that is reasonabel will hold up in court. However, you will be better off with a non-solicitation. If you leave a studio where you are teaching and then tell, call or send information to students that you have taught at that studio, that is stealing. You can be prosecuted and found guilty of theft by desception (sp). It's kind of like corporate espianage(sp) (too lazy to do this in word to check spelling first !)

This is where business ethics come in. Anyone who has taken a course in business ethics will tell you. Tyler, as far as your partner being in sales he is not stealing those customers from the company where is was or is employed is he? He did not go into thier data base and take the names and numbers of those clients did he? If he did that is a crime .

I know of a studio who had a teacher leave to open her own studio and took names etc. of all of the students of the former studio. She was prosecuted and the previous employer was awarded 3 years of back income taken by the teacher.