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OPINION AND ORDER  Petitioners Ballinasmalla Holdings Limited (“BHL”) and Corrib Oil Biofuels, LLC (“Corrib Oil”) bring this action seeking vacatur of a final arbitration award (“Final Award”) issued in favor of respondents for approximately $5 million. (Doc 6; Doc 22.) Respondents FCStone Merchant Services, LLC (“FCSTONE”) and INTL FCStone Markets, LLC (“INTL FCSTONE”) counter-claim for confirmation of the Final Award and an earlier Partial Final Award. (Doc 18.) The Court has jurisdiction by reason of diversity of citizenship, 28 U.S.C. §1332,1 and the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. §9. For the reasons explained below, petitioners’ motion to vacate is denied and respondents’ motion to confirm is granted. BACKGROUNDCorrib Oil is a company that distributes and manufactures oil and petrol products. (Am. Pet.1; Doc 22.) Corrib Oil entered into a contract with FCSTONE to purchase crude degummed soybean oil. (Id.17; see Declaration of Jeffrey D. Rotenberg (“Rotenberg Decl.”) Ex. D; Doc 20-4 (Soybean Contract).) BHL agreed to act as a guarantor for Corrib Oil on the contract. (Am Pet.18; see Rotenberg Decl. Ex. G; Doc 20-7 (Soybean Contract Guaranty).) The Soybean Contract Guaranty contains a binding arbitration clause providing that any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Guaranty or its breach shall be settled by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in accordance with its Commercial or other Arbitration Rules. (Rotenberg Decl. Ex. G14; Doc 20-7.) It further specifies that the seat of arbitration shall be New York, New York and that the governing law shall be the substantive law of the State of New York in the United States of America. (Id.)BHL separately acted as guarantor on payments owed by Corrib Oil Company Ltd. (“Corrib Ltd.”), a company not involved in the present litigation, to INTL FCSTONE on swap transactions pursuant to an International Swap Dealers Association (“ISDA”) agreement. (Am. Pet.

9 & n.2, 22−24; see Rotenberg Decl. Ex. E; Doc 20-5 (ISDA Guaranty); Ex. F; Doc 20-6 (ISDA Agreement).) The ISDA Guaranty contains a similar arbitration clause providing that any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Guaranty or any alleged breach shall be settled by arbitration administered by the AAA in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. (Rotenberg Decl. Ex. E14; Doc 20-5.) It further specifies that the seat of arbitration shall be New York, New York. (Id.)Following a dispute over the quality of certain soybean deliveries and payment on the ISDA agreement, on June 24, 2016, FCSTONE and INTL FCSTONE demanded arbitration against BHL and Corrib Oil. (Am. Pet.

 
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