Per Curiam
MLC Fishing Inc. owns the boat “Capt. Mike,” which at all relevant times was docked at a marina in Queens. Intending to go fishing as a passenger on the vessel, Velez slipped and fell on a ramp leading from the marina to a floating dock that passengers were required to traverse in order to access the boat. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal—for lack of jurisdiction—of MLC’s complaint seeking exoneration from, or limitation of, liability under 46 USC §30501 et seq., the Exoneration and Limitation of Liability Act. Applying the U.S. Supreme Court’s two-part test—from Jerome B. Grubart Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.—to determine whether a tort action lies within federal admiralty jurisdiction—the circuit found that the ramp on which Velez slipped and fell was an extension of the land, and his accident was not “caused by” the vessel or its appurtenances. As a result, MLC did not meet the test’s locality prong. Informed by a 2010 Connecticut federal court ruling in In re Carter, the circuit joined other circuits in holding that the Limitation Act does not confer admiralty jurisdiction over petitions that arise from incidents that—like Velez’s—did not occur on or over navigable waters.
