In Burgess v. Arita, 5 Haw. App. 581, 704 P.2d 930 (1985), the Court stated that "we cannot find tortious interference where a corporation is legally permitted to exercise such right." Id. at 594, 704 P.2d at 940 (involving alleged tortious interference by an officer of a contracting party corporation). In Burgess, we set out the material elements of a claim of tortious interference with contractual relations: (1) a contract between the plaintiff and a third party; (2) the defendant's knowledge of the contract; (3) the defendant's intentional inducement of the third party to breach the contract; (4) the absence of justification on the defendant's part; (5) the subsequent breach of the contract by the third party; (6) damages to the plaintiff. Id. at 594, 704 P.2d at 939.