Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MILOS PRODUCT TANKER No. 23-55655

CORPORATION,

D.C. No. Plaintiff-Appellee, 2:22-cv-01545-

CAS-E

v.

VALERO MARKETING AND OPINION

SUPPLY COMPANY,

Defendant-Appellant,

and

DOES, 1 to 10,

Defendant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Christina A. Snyder, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 16, 2024 Pasadena, California

Filed September 18, 2024 MILOS PROD. TANKER CORP. V. VALERO MKTG. & SUPPLY CO.

Before: N. Randy Smith and Salvador Mendoza, Jr., Circuit Judges, and John Charles Hinderaker,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Hinderaker

SUMMARY**

Maritime Law

The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Milos Product Tanker Corp. and remanded in Milos’s action against Valero Marketing and Supply Co. for breach of a contract for the transportation by sea of jet fuel belonging to Valero. Milos entered into a maritime transportation contract, or charter party, with GP Global PTE Ltd. on behalf of Gulf Petrochem FCZ, which arranged for the voyage. As…