An employee’s retaliation claim against his former employee will be transferred from a New Jersey federal court to one in New York after the company successfully argued that a forum selection clause in an offer letter was enforceable.

Michael Saul was hired as a senior copywriter in January 2021 for defendant company Seeking Alpha, a financial information content service. On several occasions, Saul allegedly observed marketing employees making false or misleading statements about Seeking Alpha which he reported to defendants Harriet Lefton, head of content marketing, and Jonathan Liss, director of marketplace, according to the opinion.