United States Ninth Circuit

A foreign supplier, by supplying fuel to a foreign-flagged vessel in a foreign port under an agreement that U.S. law applied to the transaction, may obtain a maritime lien under the Federal Maritime Lien Act, 46 U.S.C. section 31301 et seq. (FMLA), on the vessel docked in an American port.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2007
• Decided 03/11/2008
• Published 03/11/2008

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Stephen Simms, Simms Showers LLP, Baltimore, MD, Gary R. Clouse, Isaacs Clouse Crose & Oxford LLP, Santa Monica, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald L. Gorman, Bradley M. Rose, Kaye Rose & Partners, LLP, San Diego, CA, for the appellee.