Opinion ID: 161517
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Text: 1 Plaintiff VBF, Inc. (VBF) filed suit against Defendants, various insurance companies, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. 1 Jurisdiction was based on diversity of citizenship under 28 U.S.C. 1332. VBF sought a judgment declaring that two insurance policies issued by Defendants required Defendants to defend and indemnify VBF from a lawsuit filed against VBF by a third party. VBF later amended its complaint to also allege that Defendants had violated the duty of good faith and fair dealing. Both VBF and Defendants filed motions for summary judgment. The district court concluded that Defendants had no duty to defend or indemnify because VBF's insurance claim fell within an exclusion in the policies; the district court thus granted Defendants' motion for summary judgment and denied VBF's motion. VBF has appealed the grant of Defendants' motion; jurisdiction to consider the appeal arises under 28 U.S.C. 1291. Because VBF's insurance claim was not covered under one policy and excluded under the other policy, this court affirms the district court's grant of Defendants' motion for summary judgment.