Step 1: Contextual Framework Pass (Facts)

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Facts:
Engineer A currently works for ABC Engineering Company.
Engineer A has a very good working relationship with a major client, Clover City, which is a neighboring city.
ABC is currently under contract with Clover City for the preparation of a report on an expansion of the city’s water treatment plant.
As an employee of ABC, Engineer A developed the report by which the city will get funding for the water treatment plant expansion.
The report included a part dealing with funding for an elevated storage tank.
Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank.
Clover City is impressed by Engineer A’s initiative on this project.
The city has paid ABC for this report.
Recently, officials in Clover City suggested that Engineer A open his own engineering company in Clover City.
The city indicates that it would consider a city retainer contract and also a contract for the design of the elevated storage tank.
Six months later, Engineer A decides to establish his own firm in Clover City without soliciting work from ABC’s clients, including Clover City for a period of time.
However, after a year has passed, Engineer A begins soliciting work from ABC’s clients, including Clover City.
There was no “no-compete agreement” between Engineer A and ABC Engineering Company.