Uptown Heights Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Seafirst Corp.

I agree with the majority’s reasoning and conclusion that it was error for the trial court to grant the motions to dismiss the interference with contractual and business relationship claims. However, I would hold that the contractual and tortious good faith and fair dealing claims were improperly dismissed, and I dissent from the part of the majority opinion that affirms those rulings.

For its conclusion that the duty of good faith and fair dealing does not apply to a lender’s right to invoke a contractual default remedy, the majority opinion relies on two opinions which expressly declined to…