James Kaminsky, a former Realtor.com editor accused of taking trade secrets with him to CoStar, transferred access to at least 40 documents two days before he left the job, according to legal filings.
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An employee who led a content team at Realtor.com before moving to rival CoStar Group transferred access to as many as 40 documents to his personal email and continued accessing them dozens of times after exiting the Move, Inc.-owned portal, according to a forensic analysis in new legal filings Tuesday.
Realtor.com parent Move, Inc. asked the court to issue an order that would block former Realtor.com content editor James Kaminsky and current employer, CoStar Group, from further access to documents at the center of a lawsuit filed in July. Trade secrets within the documents include details on the company’s online traffic, advertising and lead generation tactics, Move attorneys claim.
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“Anyone with access to these documents knows what will be published on Realtor.com, and when,” Move, Inc. Vice President of Editorial and Content Amy Maas said in a sworn statement included in the new filing. “How Realtor.com’s stories are performing, and why, who Move’s Communications team is in contact with and what information media outlets are requesting from Move.”
Originally filed in July in U.S. District Court in California, the lawsuit has put a spotlight on the intense race between the country’s largest real estate portals to gain more web traffic and convert that into profit. It also highlights the ongoing fallout between Realtor.com and CoStar, which was reportedly on the cusp of purchasing…