Castle Rock Remodeling, LLC v. Better Business Bureau of Greater St. Louis, Inc.

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• affirming dismissal of tortious interference claim for failing to plead facts showing absence of justification
• company’s Better Business Bureau rating based on a subjective interpretation of data and not actionable as a matter of law
• defendant’s ‘‘C’’ rating of plaintiff was not ‘‘suffi- ciently factual to be susceptible of being proved true or false’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “we must determine whether the BBB ‘C’ rating could reasonably have been interpreted as stating actual facts about Castle Rock capable of being proven true or false”
• when defendant’s rating system weighted objective data, consumer rating was nonactionable opinion
• “[W]here a tortious interference claim is based upon an alleged defamation, if a plaintiffs defamation claim fails, the tor-tious interference claim must also fail because the plaintiff cannot establish an absence of justification as a matter of law.”

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