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The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic v. Baldwin, No. 1:22-CV-00011 (D.N. Mar. Is. April 3, 2025)04/04/2025
Court granted respondents’ motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Court accepted respondents’ argument that the Government of Laos’ petition to enforce an arbitration award against them was premature, as respondents were not parties to the underlying arbitration and a determination of whether respondents could be held liable as alter egos was inappropriate in the context of an action to confirm an arbitration award.
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Terra Towers Corp. v. Schachter, No. 1:22-CV-06150-LAK (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 1, 2025)04/01/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and stay the litigation pursuant to the FAA and New York Convention. Court reasoned that while defendants were not parties to the arbitration agreement, non-signatories could enforce the arbitration agreement by equitable estoppel where the dispute defendants sought to resolve was intertwined with the underlying agreement and the parties maintained a close enough relationship to justify arbitration.
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Quandel Construction Group, Inc. v. Hunt Construction Group, Inc., No. 2:24-CV-02362-ALM-EDP (S.D. Ohio Mar. 31, 2025)03/31/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration, rejecting plaintiff’s argument that respondent waived its right to arbitrate. Court found that based on the totality of the circumstances, respondent’s actions were not “completely inconsistent” with its later reliance on the arbitration agreement, because its previous objections to arbitration were reasonably qualified and limited to particular deficiencies.
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Kodiak Gas Services LLC v. Legend Energy Advisors LLC, No. 4:24-CV-01333 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 31, 2025)03/31/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration finding the parties’ settlement agreement contained a valid agreement to arbitrate and did not expressly exclude certain disputes from arbitration.
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Hebei Viroad Biotechnology Co., Ltd. v. Phippy LLC, No. 24-CV-00555 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 26, 2025)03/28/2025
Court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims in favor of international arbitration pursuant to the New York Convention, holding that there was a written agreement between a US and a non-US party to arbitrate a commercial purchase dispute. Court found that arbitration provisions using the language “may” should be construed to give either party the option to require arbitration. Court, therefore, determined that the arbitration agreement was mandatory and enforceable despite its permissive language because the plain language demonstrated an intent to arbitrate upon the election to do so by either party.
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Port of Vancouver USA v. BNSF Railway Co., No. 24-CV-06033-DGE (W.D. Wash. Mar. 26, 2025)03/26/2025
Court granted plaintiff’s motion to confirm an arbitration award, holding that the ambiguity grounds outlined in the FAA to vacate the award did not apply because the arbitration panel provided, upon remand, necessary clarifications to a previously judicially unenforceable award. Court also found that the panel did not exceed its authority by redetermining issues previously decided because it was responding to a court order requiring it to add specificity to its original award.
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Norman Intertrade Ltd. v. Bon-Woong Koo, No. 24-CV-02422-HSG (N.D. Cal. Mar. 24, 2025)03/24/2025
Court granted plaintiff’s petition to confirm an arbitration award, holding that the award fell under the New York Convention because it arose out of a commercial relationship between non-US parties. Court reasoned that defendants failed to meet their substantial burden to show that a defense to the enforcement of the award applied because they did not oppose the petition.
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Phillips v. Galisky, No. 24-CV-00158 (S.D.W. Va. Mar. 24, 2025)03/24/2025
Court granted a petition to confirm an arbitration award, holding that none of the grounds for vacatur under the FAA applied. Court found that the arbitrator did not exceed his powers, finding that there was no error in the arbitrator including entities not subject to the agreement in the award, rather, the award was simply unenforceable with regard to those entities.
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AKF Inc. v. Skybell Technologies Inc., No. 24-CV-02271-LTS (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 24, 2025)03/24/2025
Court granted a petition to confirm an arbitration award, holding that none of the FAA grounds for vacatur applied. Court found that the public policy exception would only apply when the enforcement of an award constituted a predatory loan, not where, as here, respondents’ claim that the underlying contract was invalid, which was for determination of the arbitrator. Court also found that the award did not exhibit a manifest disregard of law simply because respondents disagreed with the arbitrator’s interpretation and application of legal precedent.
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Leviathan Group LLC v. Delco LLC, dba Delco Products, No. 24-1547 (6th Cir. Mar. 21, 2025)03/21/2025
Court of appeals denied defendant-appellant’s motion to vacate district court’s order confirming arbitration award, holding that the arbitrator was acting within the scope of her authority. Court of appeals reasoned that where parties have bargained for an arbitrator—and not federal judges—to decide their dispute, legal or interpretive errors by arbitrators must be tolerated if the arbitrator has arguably construed the agreement. Court further found that where the arbitration agreement does not require the arbitrator to explain her decision, courts will not vacate an award for failure to provide such an explanation.
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World Media Alliance Label, Inc. v. Ello Entertainment Group, LLC, No. 23-CV-21985-FAM (S.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2025)03/21/2025
Court denied petitioner’s renewed motion for contempt based on respondent’s failure to satisfy an arbitration award confirmed by the court. Court found that under binding Eleventh Circuit precedent, court orders confirming arbitral awards operate as final monetary judgments because they require the payment of a definite sum of money. Because monetary judgments fall outside the court’s contempt power, court held that the appropriate process to enforce the award was a writ of execution, not a finding of contempt.
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Btesh v. Btesh, No. 23-CV-23679-JB (S.D. Fla. Mar. 21, 2025)03/21/2025
Court granted respondent’s motion to dismiss petition to confirm and enforce an arbitration award under the Inter-American Convention, finding it did not have personal jurisdiction over the respondent. Court reasoned that petitioner could not plead sufficient facts to demonstrate a connection to the forum to establish specific or general personal jurisdiction, or jurisdiction pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(2). Moreover, Section 9 of the FAA did not provide an independent basis for personal jurisdiction.
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Abbas v. Truist Bank, No. 3:24-CV-01283 (M.D. Tenn. March 20, 2025)03/20/2025
Court denied defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings, finding that defendants could not use a separately signed contract containing an arbitration agreement to compel plaintiffs to arbitrate an issue arising from a contract containing no such provision.
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Arrive NOLA Hotel, LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London, No. 24-1585 (E.D. La. March 20, 2025)03/20/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration as to both foreign and domestic insurers involved and granted motion to stay proceedings pending arbitration. Court found that plaintiff’s signature was not necessary for the agreement to arbitrate to be valid, because the arbitration clause was part of a larger contract—in this case, an insurance policy—that was in writing and effective. Court further held that the agreement was not null and void because, though the plaintiff did not consent to the terms of the original policy, plaintiff manifested consent by renewing the policy containing the arbitration clause. Court also held that, following Fifth Circuit precedent, federal equitable estoppel principles could be used to compel arbitration as to domestic insurers when foreign insurers were required to arbitrate under the New York Convention.
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Maclin v. Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, No. 2:24-CV-02472-TLP-ATC (W.D. Tenn. March 19, 2025)03/19/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and stay federal court proceedings, finding that the arbitration agreement was not unconscionable on account of its length, or the differences in bargaining power. Despite finding that the fee provision was unenforceable, court nevertheless found it was severable. Court also rejected plaintiff’s claim that the agreement was unenforceable because it constituted a violation of the defendant care facility’s fiduciary duty. Court found that the agreement was compliant with federal statute, and that any further questions of enforceability would go to the arbitrator.
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Cuker v. Berezofsky, No. 24-0471 (E.D. Pa. March 18, 2025)03/18/2025
Court granted plaintiff’s motion to confirm final arbitration award and denied defendant’s cross-motion to vacate or modify the award. Court dismissed defendant’s manifest disregard argument that arbitral panel misallocated fees among the parties and that the panel also misinterpreted the governing dissolution agreement, resulting in a misallocation of costs for the proceeding. Court found there was strong support for the panel’s decisions, and that one of the matters for which the defendant argued fees were misallocated was not raised at arbitration.
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Merritt v. Square Capital, LLC, No. 2:24-CV-02196-TLP-ATC (W.D. Tenn. March 18, 2025)03/18/2025
Court adopted magistrate’s report and recommendation and granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration, finding that the magistrate correctly noted that each of plaintiff’s arguments against referring the matter to arbitration were issues that themselves needed to be arbitrated.
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Teleport Mobility, Inc v. Sywula, No. 21-CV-00874-SI (N.D. Cal. March 18, 2025)03/18/2025
Court granted plaintiff’s motion to lift the stay proceedings, denied defendant’s motion to vacate the award, and confirmed the arbitration award in part but held it did not have jurisdiction to confirm the award in full. Court held it only had jurisdiction over the portions of the award concerning issues and parties previously before the court, and that the other portions of the award would need to be confirmed by a state court judge.
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Spineway SA v. Strategos Group, LLC, No. 24-1584 (3d Cir. Mar. 18, 2025)03/18/2025
Court of appeals affirmed district court’s order denying petition to confirm a foreign arbitration award because the arbitrator was not selected in accordance with the parties’ agreement. Court of Appeals found that, despite a reference to the non-existent Geneva ICC in their agreement, the parties intended the ICC, not the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (SCAI), to select the arbitrator and intended for the ICC rules to govern. Since the arbitrator was selected under SCAI rules, in contravention of the parties’ agreement, the district court properly refused to confirm the award under the New York Convention.
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CSRS, LLC v. Element 25 Limited, No. 24-CV-00358-RLB (M.D. La. Mar. 18, 2025)03/18/2025
Court granted motion to compel arbitration and stay pending arbitration, following the Fifth Circuit precedent that an agreement’s provision that a dispute “may” be resolved by arbitration is not permissive, but rather makes arbitration mandatory if one of the parties to the contract requests it. Court also found that any dispute regarding arbitrability was delegated to the arbitrator on the basis that the agreement incorporated by reference the LCIA rules. Court rejected plaintiff’s argument that the arbitration clause was null and void, finding that the FAA pre-empted the Louisiana statute that would have otherwise prohibited the arbitration from occurring in London.
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Zhongtie Dacheng (Zhuhai) Inv. Mgmt. Co. Ltd. v. Yan, No. 24-736 (9th Cir. Feb. 27, 2025)02/27/2025
Court of Appeals vacated district court judgment granting petition to enforce award against respondents under the New York Convention, explaining the “district court failed to show its work” in making the required factual findings to support confirmation of the award, including whether the agreement containing the arbitration clause was forged.
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Wang v. Haitou Global (Cayman) Inc., No. 24-CV-07781-DLC (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 25, 2025)02/25/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration of claims asserted against it by plaintiff because plaintiff’s claims fell within the scope of the arbitration clause. Court denied cross-motion to compel arbitration against non-signatory defendants, rejecting the plaintiff’s arguments based on alter-ego and direct benefits theories.
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Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc. v. NorthStar Earth & Space, Inc., No. 24-CV-08434-JHR-SLC (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2025)02/24/2025
Court granted motion to compel arbitration, finding the broad scope of the relevant arbitration clause covered the disputes plaintiff had filed in the litigation. Court also found that the dispute resolution clause in a second relevant contract did not displace the arbitration clause in the first relevant contract because the arbitration clause provided a more limited means for resolving disputes arising out of the contracts.
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Flintlock Construction Services, LLC v. Arch Specialty Insurance Company & Catlin Specialty Insurance Company, No. 24-791 (2d Cir. Feb. 21, 2025)02/21/2025
Court of Appeals affirmed district court’s denial of petitioner’s request to vacate arbitration award. Court of Appeals found the arbitration panel did not exceed its authority in its interpretation of the underlying agreement and that the panel’s decision was not irrational because it reflected the “plain meaning” of the underlying agreement.
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Global Voice Group SA v. Republic of Guinea, No. 22-CV-2100-JMC (D.D.C. Feb. 18, 2025)02/18/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to set aside default judgment, finding there existed “good cause” because of the timing of the appearance of defendant’s counsel and noting the D.C. Circuit’s strong presumption against default judgments against a foreign sovereign. Court also found that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction, finding no jurisdiction existed under the FSIA arbitration exception in the absence of evidence that defendant was party to the relevant arbitration agreement or that it delegated arbitrability to the arbitration tribunal.
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Catalent Pharma Solutions, LLC v. Romark Global Pharma, LLC, No. 24-MC-00445-ADC (D.P.R. Feb. 13, 2025)02/13/2025
Court granted petitioner’s motion to confirm arbitration award pursuant to the FAA. Court found that respondent waived the right to vacate award by failing to comply with court’s order to properly oppose petitioner’s motion. Court also found that, even if respondent’s arguments for vacatur had not been waived, vacatur would not have been granted since respondent failed to show that the arbitral tribunal committed an error in rendering a final and complete award.
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Sigma Constructores, S.A. v. Republic of Guatemala, No. 22-CV-01674-TSC-MAU (D.D.C. Feb. 13, 2025)02/13/2025
Magistrate judge recommended denial of respondent’s motion to dismiss petitioner’s action to confirm three foreign arbitration awards, rejecting respondent’s argument that court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the New York Convention and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Magistrate judge further rejected respondent’s argument that the action should be dismissed based on forum non conveniens, finding that no adequate alternative forum outside of the US existed. Lastly, magistrate judge rejected respondent’s request for dismissal under the principles of international comity, because respondent failed to cite any binding precedent supporting this assertion.
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Walgreen Co. v. PWNHealth, LLC d/b/a Everly Health Solutions, No. 24-CV-00357-RGA (D. Del. Feb. 10, 2025)02/10/2025
Court denied petitioner’s motion to vacate arbitral award under the FAA because the arbitrator neither exceeded his authority nor exhibited manifest disregard for the law. Court also denied petitioner’s alternative request to modify the award, finding that the award did not contain any evident material miscalculation, nor was it completely irrational. Court granted respondent’s cross-motion to confirm the award.
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Dominican Republic v. Lee-Chin, No. 23-CV-03821-CKK-ZMF (D.D.C. Feb. 7, 2025)02/07/2025
Magistrate judge recommended denying petitioner’s motion to vacate or, in the alternative, modify respondent’s ICSID award, and recommended granting respondent’s cross-petition to confirm the award. Magistrate judge found clear and unmistakable evidence that parties agreed to arbitrate arbitrability; concluded that petitioner failed to satisfy grounds for vacatur under the FAA and the New York Convention; and found no mathematical errors in the arbitral tribunal’s calculation of the award and thus, did not modify the award.
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GEM Yield Bahamas Limited v. Mullen Technologies, Inc., 1:24-CV-01120-KPF (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 6, 2025)02/06/2025
For reasons stated in an order issued under seal, the court denied respondents’ motion to vacate arbitral awards and granted petitioners’ cross-motion to confirm the awards, as well petitioners’ application to be awarded interest.
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Trident Builders, LLC v. American Residential Services, LLC, 2:24-CV-02464-DCN (D.S.C. Feb. 5, 2025)02/05/2025
Court denied plaintiff’s motion for a stay and to compel arbitration, holding that plaintiff failed to show that there was a valid agreement to arbitrate. Court reasoned that plaintiff failed to provide sufficient evidence of when the alleged agreement was accepted or when the parties reached a meeting of the minds as to the essential terms. Court also rejected plaintiff’s equitable estoppel argument because plaintiff provided no evidence indicating that defendant had attempted to avail itself of the benefits of the arbitration agreement.
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Etrak İnşaat Taahhüt Ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi v. State of Libya, 22-CV-864-JMC (D.D.C. Feb. 4, 2025)02/04/2025
Court granted plaintiff’s motion to confirm an arbitration award against defendant. Court found it had jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s arbitration exception, as well as personal jurisdiction, and determined that confirming the arbitration award would not violate public policy. Court concluded that it had no authority to stay the case under the New York Convention, where confirmation proceedings were pending in Turkey and Curaçao but no set aside proceedings were ongoing at the seat.
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Multilateral Partners Fort Myers Beach Income, L.P. v. Independent Specialty Insurance Company, 2:25-CV-00042-JES-KCD (M.D. Fla. Feb. 4, 2025)02/04/2025
Court granted defendants’ motion to compel arbitration pursuant to the New York Convention, to which plaintiff did not respond. Court found that there was a valid commercial agreement in writing to arbitrate requiring arbitration in the United States, and at least one defendant was a foreign citizen. Court stayed the proceedings pending the conclusion of arbitral proceedings.
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Trilogy Federal, LLC v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., 1:24-CV-02772-BAH (D.D.C. Feb. 4, 2025)02/04/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and stay the case, determining that the parties had agreed to arbitrate the threshold issue of arbitrability. Court found that even though the clause provided that arbitration “may” be conducted under the AAA rules, such permissive language was still considered to fully incorporate the AAA rules in the D.C. Circuit.
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InterAmerican Financial Consulting Group, Inc. v. Best Doctors Insurance Limited, 1:24-CV-23323-JEM (S.D. Fla. Jan. 31, 2025)01/31/2025
Court granted defendants’ motion to compel arbitration, holding that (1) the at-issue arbitration clause was enforceable, despite allegations that defendants repudiated the arbitration agreement; (2) the parties assented to the agreement, and it was thus not illusory; and (3) the forum selection clause requiring arbitration in a different forum was not unconscionable.
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McEachern v. E.R.J. Insurance Group, Inc., 23-13298 (11th Cir. Jan. 31, 2025)01/31/2025
Court affirmed the district court’s vacatur of an arbitral award, reasoning that the process for appointing arbitrators did not comply with the terms of the underlying arbitration agreement.
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The Republic of Nicaragua v. Hills Exploration Corporation, 3:24-CV-03104-MMC (N.D. Cal. Jan. 31, 2025)01/31/2025
Court denied petitioner’s motion for an order permitting alternative service to enforce an ICSID award, holding that petitioner had failed to show that relying on email and WhatsApp was appropriate under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3).
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Huarong Tianze (Hong Kong) Investment Partnership v. Huang, 1:24-CV-06502-ALC (Jan. 30, 2025)01/30/2025
Court entered judgment confirming a foreign arbitration award issued by CIETAC and granting monetary damages, interest, and fees.
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Safran Electronics & Defense SAS v. Exail SAS, 1:24-CV-02325-JPO (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 29, 2025)01/29/2025
Court granted respondent’s motion to dismiss a petition to vacate an arbitration award as untimely under the FAA. Court reasoned that petitioners did not properly serve respondents—despite attempting to do so by email—within the three-month period required under the FAA, and equitable tolling was not available to avoid the limitations period.
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ARDU Tech Ltd. v. DS Games, Inc., No. 1:24-CV-00901-MN (D. Del. Jan. 28, 2025)01/28/2025
Court granted petition to confirm arbitration award, finding the award met all the requirements of the New York Convention and FAA. Court further granted motion for entry of default judgment where respondent failed to appear, and plaintiff would be substantially prejudiced and unlikely to recover without a default judgment in place.
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Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc. v. T. Park Central LLC, No. 1:24-CV-08009-JMF (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 28, 2025)01/28/2025
Court dismissed petition to confirm arbitration award, finding an interim award which did not fully dispose of all the issues in the arbitration, was not a final award that the court could enforce under the FAA.
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McEnery v. McEnery, No. 4:21-CV-09614-HSG (N.D. Cal. Jan. 28, 2025)01/28/2025
Court granted defendants’ motion to confirm arbitration award and request for attorneys’ fees, and denied plaintiff’s request to vacate the award. Court found plaintiff’s argument that the arbitrator erred in its decision because it did not consider plaintiff’s additional valuation evidence was untimely, and the record reflected the arbitrator did in fact review the additional evidence.
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Baker Hughes Saudi Arabia Company Limited v. Dynamic Industries, Inc., No. 23-30827 (5th Cir. Jan. 27, 2025)01/27/2025
Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s decision refusing to compel arbitration where the parties’ arbitration agreement called for disputes to be resolved under the DIFC-LCIA rules, and the DIFC-LCIA was abolished by the UAE in 2021. Court of Appeals first found that the arbitration agreement only specified a particular set of rules to apply to the parties’ dispute, and not the institution to administer the dispute. Because court of appeals concluded the parties intended to arbitrate generally, and not to set an exclusive forum, it must compel arbitration. Court of appeals ordered the district court on remand to consider whether the DIFC-LCIA rules can be applied in any other available forum, consistent with the parties’ objective intent.
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Espin v. Citibank, N.A., No. 28-2083 (4th Cir. Jan. 27, 2025)01/27/2025
Court of appeals remanded to the district court to compel arbitration on all claims under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (“SCRA”), but not those brought under Military Lending Act (“MLA”). Court of appeals concluded that federal statutory remedies do not override agreements to arbitrate, unless they do so explicitly. Here, Congress had not demonstrated a clear intention to displace the provisions of the FAA since the SCRA did not exclusively provide for a particular forum and the statute’s silence on matters of arbitration would not be construed as prohibiting arbitration. By contrast, the MLA explicitly overrides the use of arbitration agreements, so arbitration could not be compelled on those claims.
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Glass-Inspiration GMBH Design + Engineering v. M.G. McGrath, Inc. Glass & Glazing, No. 24-CV-03315-LPM-DLM (D. Minn. Jan. 27, 2025)01/27/2025
Court granted petitioner’s motion to confirm arbitration award and denied respondent’s request to deny confirmation of the award on public policy grounds. Court reasoned that respondent’s public policy argument was forfeited, where it was not first raised in the underlying arbitration, and failed on the merits where petitioner initiated a dispute within the appropriate timeframe following respondent’s notice of dissolution. Court further awarded petitioner’s reasonable attorneys’ fees because respondent did not seek to set aside the award and failed to show a substantial justification for refusal to comply with the award.
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Li v. Lu, No. 3:24-CV-05604-DGE (W.D. Wash. Jan. 27, 2025)01/27/2025
Court granted motion for default judgment and petition to confirm a foreign arbitration award, where defendant failed to appear. Applying the Eitel factors, court found that default judgment was appropriate, entered default judgment, and confirmed the arbitration award.
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Hogan Lovells US LLP v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, No. 1:24-CV-05541-AS (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 24, 2025)01/24/2025
Court granted petition to confirm arbitration award where respondents failed to respond to the petition or otherwise seek relief from the award. Treating the petition as a motion for summary judgment, court found there was no issue of material fact, the arbitrator provided more than a “barely colorable justification” for the decision, and there were no grounds to vacate the award under § 10 of the FAA. Additionally, court granted petitioner’s requested fees and costs, along with pre-judgment interest as set by the arbitrator. In awarding post-judgment interest, court found it was bound by 28 USC § 1961(a), and not by the arbitrator’s decision.
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Arrive Nola Hotel, LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London, No. 2:24-CV-01585-NJB-EJD (E.D. La Jan. 22, 2025)01/22/2025
Court denied plaintiff’s motion to remand, holding that removal to federal court was proper pursuant to 28 USC § 1331 because the arbitration agreement fell under the New York Convention, and the dispute related to the arbitration agreement. Court concluded that under the Fifth Circuit’s precedent, the New York Convention does not require a signature for there to be a written agreement when the arbitration clause is contained within a broader contract.
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Zhuhai Dingfu Phase I Industrial Energy Conservation Investment Fund, LP v. Zhang, No. 8:23-CV-02059-MRA-JDE (C.D. Ca. Jan. 21, 2025).01/21/2025
Court granted petitioner’s motion for recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral award, finding that the petitioner had submitted an authentic arbitration award to the court; that notice was sufficient because a subsidiary—for whom the respondent was the controller and legal representative—participated in the arbitration proceedings and respondent appeared to be aware of this participation. Court further dismissed respondent’s defenses that he could not adequately participate in the proceedings due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, finding that respondent did not adequately prove that remote appearances or appearance through counsel were unavailable. Court also found respondent’s duress defense unpersuasive, noting the respondent did not make any effort to repudiate the contract until now.
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Charleston Immersive/Interactive Media Studio, LLC v. Aydin, No. 1:24-CV-04943-PAE (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 16, 2025)01/16/2025
Court granted defendant’s motion for a protective order, denied plaintiff’s cross-motion to compel production of certain evidence, and denied plaintiff’s motion to disqualify defendant’s counsel in an action seeking vacatur of an arbitral award. Court found that it did not have a basis to second-guess the arbitrator’s evidentiary ruling on an issue of attorney-client privilege.