TRIOSIM CORPORATION v. CLINT YOUNG; and M&S RELIABILTY GROUP, LLC

CourtDistrict Court, W.D. Arkansas
DecidedJune 25, 2026
Docket4:26-cv-04045
StatusUnknown

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TRIOSIM CORPORATION v. CLINT YOUNG; and M&S RELIABILTY GROUP, LLC, (W.D. Ark. 2026).

Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS TEXARKANA DIVISION

TRIOSIM CORPORATION PLAINTIFF

v. Case No. 4:26-cv-4045

CLINT YOUNG; and M&S RELIABILTY GROUP, LLC DEFENDANTS

ORDER

Before the Court is Plaintiff Triosim Corporation’s (“Triosim”) Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction. ECF No. 7. The Court finds that no response is necessary to resolve one aspect of the requested relief in the instant motion. For the reasons explained below, the Court grants Triosim’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) and delays determination of Triosim’s request for a Preliminary Injunction until a hearing on the matter may be conducted. I. BACKGROUND The Court derives the factual background from the allegations within Triosim’s verified Complaint. ECF No. 2 (the “Complaint”). Triosim is a Wisconsin corporation with its principal place of business is Appleton, Wisconsin. Triosim’s business involves the sale of goods and services to the pulp and paper industry. This business includes the “manufacture, sale, distribution and service of wire mesh cloth and washer drums to the paper industry,” which Triosim refers to as its “Pulp Washing Equipment Business.” Complaint at 2. Triosim is among a small number of companies that can service pulp and paper plants during those facilities’ annual maintenance shutdowns. Triosim has invested tens of millions of dollars in developing its Pulp Washing Equipment Business and related services that it provides during those annual pulp and paper facility shutdowns. Triosim maintains confidential information and proprietary data related to the Pulp Washing Equipment Business on a password-protected and segregated electronic database named “Triobox.” Out of Triosim’s approximately 700 full-time employees, approximately 50 employees have access to Triobox. The Pulp Washing Equipment Business maintenance techniques, which

Triosim refers to as “Washing Equipment Maintenance Services,” are of “substantial economic value because they allow Triosim to provide unique services to its paper mill customers,” and are difficult to replicate without the personal knowledge of those techniques possessed by former or current Triosim employees. The processes and procedures underlying Triosim’s Washing Equipment Maintenance Services are kept confidential by sequestering them in Triobox. Examples of the information underlying the Washing Equipment Maintenance Services include the drawings of various manufacturers’ equipment, specific maintenance techniques, drawings of Triosim’s fabricated parts and their installation procedures, information about and comparisons between supply vendors, and formal reports of inspections and maintenance of customers’ equipment.

Triosim sets forth its corporate policies in an Employee Handbook (“Handbook”). New Triosim employees must sign an acknowledgment of their receipt of the Handbook and their commitment to abide by the policies within. Paragraph 10 of the Handbook consists of Triosim’s policies regarding access to and protection of Triosim’s confidential information, and emphasizes that confidential information should not be disclosed to persons outside of Triosim. In April 2021, Triosim hired Defendant Clint Young (“Young”). Triosim eventually promoted Young to the Regional Service Manager position, which involved supervision of sales for approximately twenty pulp and paper plants. This position permitted Young to be among the few Triosim employees to have access to Triobox, where the Washing Equipment Maintenance Services confidential information is stored. One of the facilities within Young’s purview was the Bellerud Corporation’s (“Bellerud”) pulp and paper plant in Escanaba, Michigan (“Bellerud Plant”).1 Bellerud previously 0F awarded Triosim the contract to perform maintenance during the Bellerud Plant’s annual maintenance shutdowns in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Triosim expected to be awarded the same maintenance contract for the Bellerud Plant’s annual maintenance set to commence in July 2026. Triosim entrusted Young with representing its interests to Bellerud and provided Young with access to the confidential information within Triobox to assist in Young’s assignment. Young’s assignment also involved a visit to the Bellerud Plant in March 2026 to represent Triosim’s interests in the annual maintenance contract. Young lives in Ashdown, Arkansas. In the months prior to Young’s visit to the Bellerud Plant in March 2026, he exchanged a series of text messages on his Triosim-issued cell phone with Colby Steed (“Steed”), who is a principal of Defendant M&S Reliability Group, LLC (“MSRG”). ECF No. 2-1 (the “Messages”). MSRG is an Arkansas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Ashdown, Arkansas. MSRG is a smaller company than Triosim and whom

Triosim has previously subcontracted for smaller tasks within its maintenance contracts. The Messages between Young and Steed reference, among other things, Triosim’s prior quotes to Bellerud for the annual maintenance services at the Bellerud Plant, Young saving information from a laptop to an external hard drive, Bellerud’s requirements for new vendors, and Steed setting up an MSRG email account for Young. On March 19, 2026, Young informed Triosim of his resignation and provided his two-weeks’ notice. On March 23, 2026, Young’s supervisor informed him that he was terminated effective immediately and took possession of Young’s company-issued cell phone which contained the Messages.

1 Though Triosim uses “Billerud” in the instant motion, the Court uses “Bellerud” because that is how Triosim spells it in the verified Complaint. Thus, any quoted language from the instant motion or brief may show “Billerud.” Young subsequently began working for MSRG. Sometime in April 2026, Bellerud awarded MSRG the contract for the 2026 annual maintenance at the Bellerud Plaint. On April 8, 2026, counsel for Triosim contacted Young and MSRG to demand that both delete all Triosim confidential information in their possession and abandon any projects underway that were utilizing

such information. On or about May 1, 2026, counsel for Young and MSRG delivered affidavits from each affirming that neither had any of Triosim’s confidential information in their possession. On June 6, 2026, Triosim filed its verified Complaint against Defendants in this Court. Relevant to the instant motion, Triosim brings claims against Defendants for violations of the Arkansas Trade Secrets Act (“ATSA”), Arkansas Code § 4-75-601 et seq., and for violations of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1831 et seq.2 Complaint at 10-14. Triosim 1F alleges that Defendants violated the ATSA and the DTSA by misappropriating Triosim’s trade secrets, namely the Washing Equipment Maintenance Services confidential information. Triosim alleges that it owned this secret and economically valuable information, and that Defendants acquired these trade secrets through improper means and are using them to compete against Triosim. On June 18, 2026, Triosim filed the instant motion seeking a TRO and Preliminary Injunction, along with its Brief in support. ECF Nos. 7 & 8. Defendants have not made any appearance in this matter. Counsel for Triosim states that, after filing the Complaint, they alerted counsel for Defendants via email of Triosim’s request for injunctive relief based upon the need to protect its trade secrets. II. LEGAL STANDARD “The court may issue a preliminary injunction only on notice to the adverse party.” Fed.

2 The Court has subject matter jurisdiction over the DTSA claim. See 18 U.S.C. § 1836(c).

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