Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2) requires a “short and plain state ment of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.” The first sentence of the sixth cause of action incorporates by reference all prior allegations of the First Amended Complaint. These allegations include the following: that Regal Stone and Fleet Management are the owner and operator of the COSCO BUSAN, that the COSCO BUSAN hit the Bay Bridge, that this allision resulted in an oil spill, and that this incident was caused by the “acts, omissions, strict liability, fault, [and] negligence ... by the ... Defendants.” First Am. Compl. ¶¶ 20-28. These allegations satisfy the pleading standard of Rule 8(2)(a) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, — U.S. —, —, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 1974, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007) (<HOLDING>). Defendants also allege that “the United
holding that a complaint must contain only enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face holding that a complaint must contain enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face holding that dismissal pursuant to rule 12b6 is appropriate if the plaintiff is unable to articulate enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face recognizing that a rule 12b6 motion is an appropriate vehicle on which to seek dismissal of a claim barred by a prescription statute recognizing that to survive dismissal a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter accepted as true to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face internal quotation marks omitted