Business Court Finds Jurisdiction Over Aiding-and-Abetting and Intellectual-Property Claims Despite Absence of Standalone Causes of Action

In Alamo Title Company v. WFG National Title Company, the Texas Business Court held that allegations of a former president's new company aiding and abetting his fiduciary breach satisfied Section 25A.004(b)(5)'s jurisdictional requirement, and that repeated allegations of misappropriated business information invoked Section 25A.004(d)(4)'s intellectual-property clause even without a standalone trade-secret claim. The court applied its balance-shifting framework to find the defendant's removal notice pleading more than five million dollars in controversy satisfied the amount-in-controversy threshold where plaintiff offered no rebuttal.