SUMMARY ORDER

BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT'S RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION "SUMMARY ORDER"). A PARTY CITING A ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment is AFFIRMED.

Defendant-Appellant Emmanuel Blanco Balbuena was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(B) and 846. On January 6, 2014, Balbuena pleaded guilty to the lesser-included offense of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(C) and 846. Balbuena was sentenced on April 23, 2014, to thirty months' imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised release. On appeal, Balbuena argues that the district court erred in concluding that he was not entitled to a minor role reduction under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2(b).

Though we generally review a sentence for procedural and substantive reasonableness under an abuse of discretion standard, see United States v. Cavera, 550 F.3d 180, 189-90 (2d Cir. 2008) (en banc), with regard to role adjustments, "[t]his Circuit has not always been consistent in describing the standard of review," United States v. Gotti, 459 F.3d 296, 349 (2d Cir. 2006). "In determining the appropriate standard of review for a district court's application of the Guidelines to the specific facts of a case, this Court follows an either/or approach, adopting a de novo standard of review when the district court's application determination was primarily legal in nature, and adopting a clear error approach when the determination was primarily factual." United States v. Hsu, 669 F.3d 112, 120 (2d Cir. 2012) (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted).

In this case, the clear error standard is appropriate because the district court's application of U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 was primarily factual, rather than legal. Indeed, Balbuena himself concedes that the standard of review should be clear error. "A finding of fact is clearly erroneous only if the appellate court is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed." United States v. Yu, 285 F.3d 192, 199 (2d Cir. 2002) (internal quotation marks omitted). We do not believe that the district court committed clear error here. The district court properly determined that Balbuena purchased distribution-level quantities of heroin, some of which he resold to at least one customer. Thus, even though Balbuena played a lesser drug trafficking role than some of his coconspirators, the district court did not clearly err in concluding that he was not entitled to a role reduction under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2(b).

We have considered all of Balbuena's arguments and find them to be without merit. For the reasons stated above, the judgment of the district court is

AFFIRMED.