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MIDWEST FEEDERS, INC., a Kansas corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REGIONS BANK (INC) (ALABAMA), an Alabama corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 16-16849
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    (January 3, 2018)
    Troy J. Aramburu, Snell & Wilmer, LLP, Salt Lake City, UT, John O’Brien, Scott Sandberg, Spencer Fane LLP, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant
    William James Holley, II, Trishanda L. Treadwell, Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee
    
      Before TJOFLAT and JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judges, and BLOOM, District Judge.
    
      
       Honorable Beth Bloom, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, sitting by designation.
    
   PER CURIAM:

Midwest Feeders appeals the District Court’s grant of a motion to dismiss its complaint for failure to state a claim. After review, and with the benefit of oral argument, we conclude the complaint was properly dismissed because the facts of this case do not give rise to any claim asserted by Midwest Feeders.

For example, it is obvious that Midwest Feeders is not within the class of “ ‘[p]er-son[s] entitled to enforce’ an instrument” within the meaning of O.C.G.A § 11-3-301. Furthermore, its common law conversion claim is clearly preempted by O.C.G.A. § 11-3-420. See Ownbey Enters., Inc. v. Wachovia Bank, N.A., 457 F.Supp.2d 1341, 1353-54 (N.D. Ga. 2006) (citing Jacobs v. Metro Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., 125 Ga. App. 462, 188 S.E.2d 250, 253 (1972)).

For these reasons, and for the additional reasons well described in the District Court’s September 30, 2016 order dismissing the complaint, we affirm.

AFFIRMED.