Molavi

I. BACKGROUND

1 A. Factual Background 2 Plaintiff Primrose Alloys, Inc. (“Primrose”) is a California corporation with its principal 3 place of business in Burlingame, California. Second Amended Complaint ¶ 1, ECF No. 67 4 (“SAC”). Plaintiff Xi Dong, a subsidiary of Primrose, is a Delaware corporation with its principal 5 place of business in Burlingame, California. Id. ¶¶ 2, 18. Primrose and Xi Dong work in the 6 supply of “high quality aluminum alloy products,” id. ¶ 13, and broker between alloy 7 manufacturers and customers. 8 Defendant Alex Molavi was hired by Primrose as a Vice President to establish Xi Dong as 9 a new subsidiary of Primrose. Id. ¶ 18. Molavi eventually served as President for Xi Dong, and, 10 in this capacity, Molavi was charged with negotiating agreements with customers and generating 11 new business. Id. ¶¶ 18, 19. In August 2014, Molavi negotiated an agreement between Xi Dong 12 and Defendant TSA Tung Shin International Co., Ltd. (“Tung Shin”), a Vietnamese corporation. 13 Id. ¶¶ 6, 23. Under the agreement, Tung Shin would be Xi Dong’s exclusive supplier in Vietnam 14 for aluminum products, and Tung Shin would only sell Tung Shin’s aluminum…