Penna V. Toyota Motor Sales USA Summary

Appellant interfered with Respondent’s prospective economic relationship with JFI, but there was nothing else sufficient to indicate a wrongful conduct outside of interference itself because Appellant made a demand for debt that was owed to her and JFI rightfully terminated its relationship in order to keep its business a float.
“Acts or conduct which caused the interference or disruption must be wrongful by some measure beyond the fact of the interference itself”, a defendant in an economic relations tort case could defeat liability by showing that its conduct was not independently “wrongful”, question of privilege arises unless the interference would be wrongful but for the privilege or justified. Della Penna v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.,