Title: Kam Center Specialty Corporation v. LWC IV Corporation

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

LAW LIBRARY

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

KAM CENTER SPECIALTY CORPORATION,
a Hawai'i corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee

LHC IV CORPORATION, @ Hawai'i corporation,
dba Eastern Garden Chinese Seafood Restaurant;
LAWRENCE CHAN; and LINDA CHAN, Defendants-Appellants

 

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LWC IV CORPORATION, 2 Hawai'i corporation,
dba Eastern Garden Chinese Seafood Restaurai

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JOHN E. KOBAYASHT and V.I.P. INVESTMENTS, INC
2 Vawai'i corporation, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees

APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(crv. NO. 03-1-2075)

"AND ORDER OF AMENDMENT

(By: Moon, C.J, Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)

Upon consideration of the motions for reconsideration
filed by Defendants-Appellants LNC IV Corporation, dba Eastern
Garden Chinese Seafood Restaurant, Lawrence Chan and Linda Chan
(collectively, Defendants) and Third-Party Defendants-Appellees

John £. Kobayashi and VIP Investments, Inc. (collectively, Third

Party Defendants) the attachments thereto, and the record,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendants’ motion is
granted and the menorandun opinion filed on September 27, 2007 is

amended as follows (deleted material is bracketed and new

 

material is double underscored):

 

Lines 20-24 from the top of page 46: not in fact
raised below. (Assuming arquende that a claim for unfair
competition includes a claim for tortious interference with
contractual relations, we concluded supra that the court did
not abuse its discretion in denying Defendants’ motion for
leave to amend their Third-Party Complaint to raise a claim
for unfair competition under HRS § 480-2 against TPDs.}
Even if the court had allowed Defendants to amend their
Third-party Cor de the claim for unfair t
rac would not have been suff

Jain for tortious int 2 ptractual
x See Robert's Waikiki Un v
Rent-A-Car Svs 199, 1227 (D.Haw. 1980
setting forth the expansive definition of “unfair

ctices” under i = le federal
authorities (quoting A.7.C. vs Sperry 6 Hutchinson cou 405
= 12) (citation omitted): cor
s uavat's at 22, 956 2
elements cf tortious interference with contractual relations
dcikabion omitted, Accordingly,
‘The Clerk of the Court is directed to incorporate the

foregoing changes in the original memorandum opinion and take all

necessary steps to notify the publishing agencies of these

changes.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Third-Party Defendants’

Motion for Reconsideration is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, November 6, 2007.

steven K.S. Chung and
Lauren A. Stern (Steven
Chung and Associates LLLC)
‘on the motion for
Defendants-Appellants.

Sidney K. Ayabe, Gail M.
Kang, and Edmund K.U. Yee
(ayabe Chong Nishimoto

Sia & Nakamura) on the motion
for Third-Party Defendants-
Appellees.

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