FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Minnesota manufacturer is suing the head of the North Dakota Trade Office, accusing him of violating the terms of his employment with the company before he left and assumed the state office.

Mattracks Inc. filed a complaint in Minnesota District Court alleging that Dean Gorder violated confidentiality and noncompetition agreements he signed when Mattracks hired him that barred him from using contacts or information he gleaned as an employee to benefit another company, the Grand Forks Herald reported (http://bit.ly/UaR4GG ).

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