Suntrust

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GOLDEN WEST REFINING COMPANY, 

a California corporation, No. 06-56006 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-01550-FMC

SUNTRUST BANK, a Georgia State

OPINION

chartered bank, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Florence-Marie Cooper, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 7, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed August 18, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Ronald M. Gould, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

10919 10922 GOLDEN WEST REFINING v. SUNTRUST BANK

COUNSEL

Susan A. Mitchell, Frederick A. Clark, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant- appellant.

Dennis B. Arnold, Marjorie E. Lewis, and Sarah F. Powers, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

SunTrust Bank (“SunTrust”) appeals the district court’s judgment in favor of Golden West Refining Company (“Golden West”) in an action brought by Golden West to draw on a letter of credit issued to it by…