company against: (1) a customer or (2) an employee assigned to work for a customer. Furthermore, “public policy precludes enforcement of a contract entered into in violation of a licensing statute.” Accountemps, supra, 115 N.J. at 614, 560 A.2d 663; Peri Software Solutions, Inc., supra, slip op. at 8, 2007 WL 1245955. Thus, failure to license or register an employment agency in New Jersey serves as a bar to enforcing a contract. Accountemps, supra, 115 N.J. at 626, 560 A.2d 663; see also Data Informatics, supra, 338 N.J. Super, at 79, 768 A.2d 210; Nitta v. Yamamoto, 31 N.J. Super. 578, 584, 107 A.2d 515 (App.Div.1954) (voiding a restrictive covenant because plaintiff failed to obtain an employment agency license); Peri Software Solutions, Inc., supra, slip op. at 9, 2007 WL 1245955 (<HOLDING>); Talented IT, Inc. v. Data Group, Inc.,
holding that duty existed as a matter of public policy independent of the restatement holding that state courts may not enforce racially restrictive covenants holding that a restrictive covenant with a tenyear term was unenforceable holding physicians covenants not to compete are unenforceable and void as a matter of public policy holding that the restrictive covenants at issue are unenforceable as a matter of public policy