Non-solicitation clauses in employment contracts that include a fallback provision for a court to determine a lesser reasonable period are not void for uncertainty, because the fallback words are severable from the operative twelve-month restraint. Senior executives who leave employment and solicit the custom of persons with whom their former employer had been in negotiations breach non-solicitation clauses, even where those persons had not yet become actual customers. The failure of an employer's public float does not frustrate contracts of employment that are capable of performance in the changed circumstances. An undertaking as to damages will not be enforced against a successful plaintiff merely because the plaintiff's financial position was parlous, where the defendant knew of that position and failed to bring it adequately to the court's attention.
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