Case Name: THE VACCINE CENTER, LLC, DBA The Vaccine Center and Travel Medicine Clinic, a Nevada limited liability company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Southern Nevada Health District, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-01-03
Citations: 672 F. App'x 733
Docket Number: No. 14-17207
Parties: THE VACCINE CENTER, LLC, DBA The Vaccine Center and Travel Medicine Clinic, a Nevada limited liability company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Southern Nevada Health District, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: KOZINSKI and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 672
Pages: 733–734

Head Matter:
THE VACCINE CENTER, LLC, DBA The Vaccine Center and Travel Medicine Clinic, a Nevada limited liability company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Southern Nevada Health District, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 14-17207
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted December 12, 2016 San Francisco, California
Filed January 03, 2017
Maxwell Michael Bleeher, Esquire, Blecher Collins Pepperman & Joye, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, Richard Leo Kellner, Kabateck Brown & Kellner, LLP, Los An-geles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant
Stephen J. Kastenberg, Esquire, Burt M. Rublin, Esquire, Attorney, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Matthew David Lamb, Ballard Spahr LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee Glax-oSmithKline LLC
Christian T. Balducci, Esquire, Attorney, Terry Allen Coifing, Esquire, Attorney, Micah S. Echols, Esquire, Attorney, Marquis Aurbach Coffing, Las Vegas, NV, for Defendant-Appellee Southern Nevada Health District
Before: KOZINSKI and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON, District Judge.
The Honorable Sharon L. Gleason, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The Nonprofit Institutions Act exempts non-profits from liability under the Robinson-Patman Act when they purchase supplies for their "own use." 15 U.S.C. § 13c. The Supreme. Court has interpreted "own use" to mean that which promotes the entity's "intended institutional operation." Abbott Labs. v. Portland Retail Druggists Ass'n, Inc., 425 U.S. 1, 14, 96 S.Ct. 1305, 47 L.Ed.2d 537 (1976).
The Southern Nevada Health District's intended institutional operation is broad: County law empowers it "[t]o take whatever action that is necessary to control communicable diseases," Clark Cty,, Nev., Code § 3.08.070(b). But even activities that conform to an "extraordinar[il]y broad institutional function" can satisfy the "own use" provision. De Modena v. Kaiser Found. Health Plan, Inc., 743 F.2d 1388, 1393 (9th Cir. 1984).
Because the vaccine sales and marketing activities of the Southern Nevada Health District conformed to the intended institutional operation of such a district, the Health District purchased the discounted vaccines for its "own use." The district court thus properly held that defendants were exempt from Robinson-Patman liability.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.