Fenerjian

*1063 ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTIONS TO DISMISS

Re: Dkt. Nos. 80, 83, 87, 89, 102, 110, 112

INTRODUCTION

On July 12, 2012, the Korean Fair Trade Commission found that four Korean companies conspired to fix the prices of Korean Noodles in Korea. The following year, direct and indirect purchaser plaintiffs filed the present suits in the United States against the four Korean companies and their purported distributors in the United States, alleging that they conspired to fix the prices of Korean Noodles sold in the United States. Defendants move to dismiss on the grounds that plaintiffs have not plausibly pleaded a conspiracy to fix prices of Korean Noodles in the United States.

Plaintiffs have plausibly pleaded that the conspiracy to raise prices in Korea also related to Korean Noodles imported to, and sold in, the United States. But plaintiffs have not plausibly pleaded that all of the American distributors were controlled by their purported Korean counterparts or that all of defendants’ Korean Noodles in fact increased in price in the United States. Plaintiffs have therefore not plausibly pleaded that all defendants were involved in the conspiracy and…