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No statutory definition

Nonsolicitation agreement

A contract restricting an employee from soliciting a former employer's customers or using its client or contact lists — a category Minnesota's noncompete statute names in order to exclude it from the ban, and does not define — nor does any other section of chapters 177, 181, or 325C.

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Also called: non-solicitation agreement; nonsolicit; no-solicit clause.

A search of the chapters that use the phrase turns up no definition of “nonsolicitation agreement.” Minn. Stat. § 181.988, subd. 1(a), names the category once, to carve it out:

A covenant not to compete does not include a nonsolicitation agreement, or agreement restricting the ability to use client or contact lists, or solicit customers of the employer.

A full-text search of the Revisor’s official chapter file for chapter 181 on September 8, 2026 returns exactly one use of “nonsolicitation” — that sentence — and no definition; chapters 177 and 325C do not use the word. This site uses the term for a clause aimed at who you may approach after you leave, as distinct from a covenant not to compete, which is aimed at where and for whom you may work.

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