My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: Michigan.
Before I began working for my current employer (5+ years ago) I willfully signed an employment agreement that included a very broadly defined 6 year non-compete agreement as well as a very broadly defined 6 year non-solicitation agreement. During my tenure, yet completely unrelated to my work, I made friends with a lead developer at a local, non-competing company which happened to be one of my employer's clients. It turns out his company bought some computer hardware through my company, and me being a software developer I had nothing to do with this.
About 2 months ago this friend of mine contacted me about a position opening at his company and asked if I was interested. I told him that I was, but I had a non-solicitation agreement preventing me from working for ANY of my employer's clients along with the standard non-compete agreement. He said that it wouldn't matter since I never worked on any projects for his company and that his company is not a competitor to my current company.
So is it true? I am not very worried about the non-compete agreement since the company is not a competitor in the marketplace, at all. Since I never worked on any of the projects or sales for his company am I bound by the non-solicitation agreement? Does it make any difference at all that I had nothing to do with this client through my current company? Either way, what should my next steps be?

