Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR Document 118 Filed 04/10/23 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS, 22-cv-10904 (JSR) Plaintiff, MEMORANDUM ORDER -vJPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff, -vJAMES EDWARD STALEY, Third-Party Defendant. JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.: Plaintiff the Government of the United States Virgin Islands (the "USVI") seeks to amend its complaint against defendant JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. ("JP iiiiiir), adding a claim that JP obstructed the enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act ("TVPA") in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(d). Since the USVI may no longer amend opposes amendment, the USVI must its complaint by right and JP seek the Court's leave to amend. See Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 15(a)(1)-(2). For reasons given below, the Court grants that leave. Leave to amend is entrusted "to the sound discretion" of this Court. v. Kimm, 884 F.3d 98, 105 (2d Cir. 2018). While leave should be freely given when "justice so requires," Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 15(a)(2), the Court may also deny leave "for good reason, including futility, 1 EFTA02807009