Solution

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Fix . Truncate at and close it with the upper semicircle centred at , oriented counterclockwise. For large the only pole of the integrand inside is . Uniformly on the arc, is comparable to and , so the arc integral is and tends to zero. The line integral is absolutely convergent at infinity for the same decay reason. The Cauchy integral formula gives
The right-hand side is holomorphic on this open half-plane by the hypothesis, proving the required holomorphic function. The contour never passes through because its imaginary part is strictly above the line.

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