Angelo Cremona, S.P.A. v. R.S. Bacon Veneer Company

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

This is a contract dispute diversity action between R.S. Bacon Veneer Company (Bacon) and Angelo Cremona, S.p.A. (Cremona). Bacon appeals the district court’s 1 denial of Bacon’s motion for summary judgment and the grant of Cremona’s motion for summary judgment ordering Bacon to indemnify Cremona for liability deriving from a workplace accident lawsuit involving a machine sold to Bacon by Cremona. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In April 1997, Bacon, a manufacturing company with a wood veneer mill facility in Grundy Center, Iowa, and Cremona, an Italian corporation, entered into a…