Grand Bayman Belize, Ltd. v. Wells Fargo and Company
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United States District Court Central District of California
11 GRAND BAYMAN BELIZE, LTD., Case № 2:19-cv-07698 ODW (RAOx)
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT [17]
14 WELLS FARGO & COMPANY et al.,
15 Defendants.
16 I. INTRODUCTION Before the Court is Defendant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.’s (sued as Wells Fargo 19 & Company) motion for summary judgment on Plaintiff Grand Bayman Belize, Ltd.’s 20 claim for wrongful payment of a wire transfer. (Mot. for Summ. J. (“Mot.”) 4, ECF 21 No. 17.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS the Motion.1 II. BACKGROUND On or about October 1, 2018, Grand Bayman received a fraudulent email, 24 purportedly an invoice from one of its vendors, RAD Architecture, Inc. (Notice of 25 Removal Ex. A (“Compl.”) ¶ 5, ECF No. 1-1.) The email directed Grand Bayman to 26 wire $226,991.45 to a Wells Fargo account ending in x3420 (“Account x3420”). (Id.)
28 1 Having carefully reviewed the papers filed in connection with…