Editor's note: The following story was updated from its original version to reflect new court filings.

Court filings reveal that J.P. Morgan Securities has filed two additional lawsuits against former advisors in an attempt to stop what it alleges to be client poaching.

J.P. Morgan Securities filed lawsuits against three former advisors last week asking for temporary restraining orders and injunctions to keep them from luring clients to Ameriprise Financial Services and Wells Fargo.

The court actions came the same week the firm sued David Anderson for allegedly moving clients to Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.

The firm on Tuesday put dually registered Seth Chamberlain, now at Ameriprise, in its crosshairs, and then on Thursday did the same with married duo Samira Arikat and Brian Armstrong, who had jumped to Wells Fargo. Both lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court of Arizona.

In all the cases, the firm asked the court to stop the advisors from taking clients pending a resolution of the dispute by Finra arbitrators.

The asset manager reached an agreement with Arikat and Armstrong yesterday and the request for a temporary restraining order was considered moot, according to court documents. Under the agreement, pending the Finra proceedings, the couple will refrain from soliciting any J.P. Morgan clients or employees to join them at Wells Fargo. In addition, they will return any records or documents pertaining to those clients and employees within two days, the agreement said. However should clients reach out to Arikat and Armstrong, the couple is entitled to return phone calls and emails, set up meetings and process account transfers.

The suit against Chamberlain alleged that after he resigned on May 27 to join Ameriprise he successfully convinced 66 clients with assets under management of $53 million to transfer their accounts to Chamberlin at Ameriprise.

Chamberlain held the title "private client advisor" and worked in a bank branch office of JPMorgan Chase Bank in Mesa, Ariz., where he served about 272 clients with total AUM of $131 million, according to the complaint.

J.P. Morgan argues in the lawsuit that Chamberlain breached non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements, disregarded the firm’s code of conduct and violated his common-law obligations to the firm.

“Defendant’s misconduct is highly disruptive to JPMorgan’s ability to conduct business in a stable manner and to maintain JPMorgan’s goodwill with its clients,” the filing stated. “Unless [Chamberlain's] misconduct is immediately restrained and enjoined, other competitors of JPMorgan will be encouraged to engage in the same kind of improper behavior with complete impunity, the result of which will inflict severe and permanent damages on JPMorgan.”

In its lawsuit against Armstrong and Arikat, the firm alleged that following their June 15 resignations, the couple started soliciting their J.P. Morgan clients to join them in their new venture at Wells Fargo.

Both had started their J.P. Morgan careers on the Chase side of the firm. Arikat had spent six years dually registered at Charles Schwab and one year at Merrill Lynch before joining Chase in 2010, according to BrokerCheck. Armstrong joined Chase as a broker in 2007, becoming dually registered in 2009, according to BrokerCheck. 

Wells Fargo recruited them with about $6 million in financial inducements, according to the lawsuit.

In addition, the filing claimed, they worked in two Scottsdale, Ariz., branches of J.P. Morgan Chase as private client advisors along with three other investment professionals—Catherine Esparza, who is dually registered and joined Chase in 2012; Michael Rosson, a broker who joined Chase in 2007; and Beth Michele, an investment associate who joined Chase in 2007 and at one time was a registered broker, according to BrokerCheck. All three resigned at the same time as Armstrong and Arikat and are working at the same office for Wells Fargo, the lawsuit said.

J.P. Morgan’s suit said the team has brought about 80 J.P. Morgan clients with assets under management of $95 million to Wells Fargo.

The Forbes Best In-State Women Advisors 2022 list for Arizona put Arikat's assets under management at $529 million.

Attempts to reach the advisors and Ameriprise were unsuccessful. A Wells Fargo spokesperson would only say that the firm was happy to have Armstrong and Arikat aboard, and a J.P. Morgan spokesperson declined to comment. 

Both of the lawsuits followed a strategic pattern on J.P. Morgan’s part, where “private client advisors” who work in bank branches are described as receiving all of their client leads as assignments from the firm.

“[They] sat at their desks at the JPMorgan Chase bank branch they were assigned to and were introduced to hundreds of existing bank clients (with or without investment accounts) to offer and provide access to investment opportunities through Chase Wealth Management,” the lawsuits said. “As Private Client Advisors, [they] were not expected to engage in cold calling or attempt to build a client base independent of referrals from JPMorgan.”