Ashall Homes Ltd. v. ROK Entertainment Group Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that non-contract claims, including claim for tortious interference, were subject to the contract’s forum-selection provision because the non-contract claims depended on the same set of facts and required analysis of the contract
• stating the purpose of the foreseeability test is to prevent “an end-run around an otherwise enforceable Forum Selection Provision[.]”
• applying a version of the foreseeability inquiry to foreclose an “end run” around an enforceable forum selection provision
• describing the test for whether a claim is “based on the contract containing the [forum] selection clause” as “whether the plaintiff’s claims depend on rights and duties that must be analyzed by reference to the contractual relationship.”
• \An action need not even allege contract-based claims in order for a forum selection clause in a contract to be enforced.\
• “An action need not even allege contract-based claims in order for a forum selection clause in a contract to be enforced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).