This decision affirms a summary judgment against most of plaintiff’s claims which arose from his ouster from an LLC after he circulated a letter to potential investors in the LLC falsely claiming that it was engaging in criminal activity. Since the LLC needed to raise capital through private offerings, the letter harmed the LLC, providing a rational basis for ousting the plaintiff over his harmful letter which he refused to retract. The LLC’s board did not have any disabling conflict of interest which would circumvent the business judgment rule. Though the directors stood to gain personally, they gained only if the LLC as a whole gained, so their personal interest did not conflict with the LLC’s. Similarly, there was no demonstration that the directors acted in bad faith; they had good business reasons for acting as they did. The fact that they badmouthed plaintiff in private communications didn’t show bad faith. The fact that the directors did not all vote to oust plaintiff didn’t bar their reliance on the business judgment rule since all approved that action even if they didn’t formally vote on it.