Grand Isle Shipyard Inc. v. SEACOR MARINE, LLC.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

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The question presented by this appeal is what law governs the resolution of a contractual dispute, here enforceability of an indemnity provision, when the act or omission that causes the underlying death, bodily injury, or property damage (hereafter, the “tort”) which triggered the contractual indemnity claim occurred on navigable water on the Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”), but the contract that creates the indemnity obligation between the parties calls for a majority of the work to be performed on stationary platforms on the OCS. Central to this issue is the…