Case Name: MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SEAMASTER LOGISTICS, INC.; Toll Global Forwarding (Americas) Inc., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-05-23
Citations: 691 F. App'x 416
Docket Number: No. 15-17295
Parties: MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SEAMASTER LOGISTICS, INC.; Toll Global Forwarding (Americas) Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: W. FLETCHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and HUCK, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 691
Pages: 416–417

Head Matter:
MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SEAMASTER LOGISTICS, INC.; Toll Global Forwarding (Americas) Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 15-17295
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 15, 2017 San Francisco, California
Filed May 23, 2017
James Barton Nebel, Attorney, Flynn, Delich & Wise LLP, San Francisco, CA, Conte C. Cicala, Clyde & Co LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant
Eric Danoff, Attorney, Katharine Es-sick, Sedgwick LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees
Before: W. FLETCHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and HUCK, District Judge.
The Honorable Paul C. Huck, United States District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Plaintiff-Appellant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, LTD. ("MOL") appeals the dismissal of its Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") claims against Sea-Master Logistics, Inc. ("SeaMaster") and Toll Global Forwarding (Americas) Inc. ("Summit"). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
MOL alleges that Summit and SeaMas-ter's fraudulent wire and mail transmissions proximately caused its domestic injuries. To show proximate cause, MOL must prove "some direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged." Holmes v. Sec. Investor Prot. Corp., 503 U.S. 258, 268, 112 S.Ct. 1311, 117 L.Ed.2d 532 (1992). Mere "but-for" or factual causation is insufficient. Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York, 559 U.S. 1, 9, 130 S.Ct. 983, 175 L.Ed.2d 943 (2010). So too is "[a] link that is too remote, purely contingent, or indirect." Id. (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
Defendants' use of U.S. mails and wires did not proximately cause MOL's injuries. Those injuries were the direct result of Summit and SeaMaster's false Shenzhen door declaratipns, which induced MOL to issue payments to Rainbow and forego the higher origin receiving charges and space protection premiums to which it otherwise would have been entitled. The false wire and mail transmissions at issue may have facilitated the overall arrangement, but their role in the scheme was insufficiently direct to constitute a proximate cause of MOL's injuries. See Oki Semiconductor Co. v. Wells Fargo Bank, 298 F.3d 768, 774 (9th Cir. 2002).
Because MOL cannot show proximate cause, we need not address whether it suffered "domestic injury" within the meaning of RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Cmty., — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 2090, 2106-11, 195 L.Ed.2d 476 (2016). Defendants' Motion for Judicial Notice is accordingly denied.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.