JOHN C. COUGHENOUR, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on Defendant Karen Fedorko Sefer and Defendant Orient America's motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' third amended complaint (Dkt. No. 61). Having thoroughly considered the parties' briefing and the relevant record, the Court finds oral argument unnecessary and hereby DENIES the motion for the reasons explained herein.
The underlying facts of this litigation have been detailed in a previous order and the Court will not repeat them here. (See Dkt. No. 41.) Prior to considering the present motion to dismiss, the Court considered Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' tortious interference claim and theories of liability premised on piercing the corporate veil. (Dkt. No. 47 at 8-13.) The Court dismissed Plaintiffs' tortious interference claim with leave to amend and denied Defendants' motion to dismiss with respect to Plaintiffs' theories of liability premised on piercing the corporate veil. (Dkt. No. 58 at 5.) Plaintiffs subsequently filed an amended complaint seeking to cure the deficiencies in their tortious interference claim. (Dkt. No. 59 at 29.) Defendants move for dismissal of Plaintiffs' tortious interference claim and move the Court to revisit its prior order denying Defendants' motion to dismiss. (Dkt. No. 61 at 15.)
The Court may dismiss a complaint that "fail[s] to state a claim upon which relief can be granted." Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). To survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim for relief that is plausible on its face. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 677-78 (2009). A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the Court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged. Id. at 678.
A plaintiff is obligated to provide grounds for his or her entitlement to relief that amount to more than labels and conclusions or a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 545 (2007). "[T]he pleading standard Rule 8 announces does not require `detailed factual allegations,' but it demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678 (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555).
A claim for tortious interference with a contractual relationship or business expectancy requires five elements: (1) a valid contractual relationship or business expectancy; (2) the defendant's knowledge of that relationship; (3) the defendant's intentional interference inducing or causing a breach or termination of the relationship or expectancy; (4) the defendant's interference being for an improper purpose or using improper means; and (5) damages. See Leingang v. Pierce Cty. Med. Bureau, Inc., 930 P.2d 288, 300 (Wash. 1997). Further, an officer of a corporation cannot be held personally liable for tortious interference with the corporation's contractual relations unless that officer acts in bad faith. Olympic Fish Prods., Inc. v. Lloyd, 611 P.2d 737, 739 (Wash. 1980). In this context, bad faith means that the officer is "pursuing purely personal goals with no intent to benefit the corporation." Id. If an officer knows she is not protecting an existing corporate interest, she is acting in bad faith. Deep Water Brewing, LLC v. Fairway Res. Ltd., 215 P.3d 990, 1010 (Wash. Ct. App. 2009).
Plaintiffs' amended complaint asserts that Defendant Sefer was a corporate officer of both Defendant Orient Turkey, as its president, and Defendant Orient America, as its Chief Operating Officer. (Dkt. No. 59 at 29.) Plaintiffs further assert that Defendant Sefer knew that her alleged inducement to breach the parties' contracts would cause the corporate Defendants "legal and financial harm [and] that they would be left with unpaid obligations, lawsuits, significant legal expenses, monetary judgments," and harm to their reputations and identities. (Id.) Taking these allegations as true, the Court finds it is plausible that Defendant Sefer knew she was not protecting a corporate interest, but was instead advancing her own interests, when she induced the corporate Defendants to breach their agreements with Plaintiffs. Therefore, Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' tortious interference claim is DENIED.
Defendants draw the Court's attention to their "observation" that Plaintiffs have not pled facts that establish a connection between Defendants' alleged abuse of the corporate form and harm suffered by Plaintiffs. (Dkt. No. 61 at 15-16.) The Court construes Defendants' request as a motion for reconsideration, which is untimely. See W.D. Wash. Local Civ. R. 7(h)(2).
Additionally, Defendants have not met the standard for reconsideration. Reconsideration is only appropriate where there is "manifest error in the prior ruling or a showing of new facts or legal authority which could not have been brought to [the Court's] attention earlier with reasonable diligence." W.D. Wash. Local Civ. R. 7(h)(1). "A motion for reconsideration should not be used to ask the court to rethink what the court had already thought through—rightly or wrongly." Premier Harvest LLC v. AXIS Surplus Ins. Co., Case No. C17-0784-JCC, Dkt. No. 61 at 1 (W.D. Wash. 2017) (quoting United States v. Rezzonico, 32 F.Supp.2d 1112, 1116 (D. Ariz. 1998)). The Court has previously decided this precise issue, (Dkt. No. 58 at 4), Defendants do not show that the Court committed manifest error in its previous order, and Defendants provide no new facts or legal authority for the Court to consider. Defendants' motion for reconsideration is DENIED.
For the foregoing reasons, Defendants' motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 61) is DENIED. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to amend Paragraph 122 of their third amended complaint (Dkt. No. 59) to comport with this order within five days of the date of this order.