diff --git a/concurrency-limits-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/concurrency/limits/limiter/AbstractPartitionedLimiter.java b/concurrency-limits-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/concurrency/limits/limiter/AbstractPartitionedLimiter.java
index 66764f3..a635752 100644
--- a/concurrency-limits-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/concurrency/limits/limiter/AbstractPartitionedLimiter.java
+++ b/concurrency-limits-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/concurrency/limits/limiter/AbstractPartitionedLimiter.java
@@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ private Partition resolvePartition(ContextT context) {
 
     @Override
     public Optional<Listener> acquire(ContextT context) {
-        final Partition partition = resolvePartition(context);
-
         if (shouldBypass(context)){
             return createBypassListener();
         }
 
+        final Partition partition = resolvePartition(context);
+
         // This is a little unusual in that the partition is not a hard limit. It is
         // only a limit that it is applied if the global limit is exceeded. This allows
         // for excess capacity in each partition to allow for bursting over the limit,