Avedon Engineering, Inc. v. Seatex

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a “choice of law analysis is generally unnecessary if the relevant states have enacted identical controlling statutes”
• holding the district court must hold a jury trial on the existence of the agreement to arbitrate where the parties raise genuine issues of material fact regarding the making of the agreement to arbitrate
• providing for de novo review of a district court’s decision to “deny a jury trial on the factual question of whether the parties agreed to arbitrate”
• “The existence of an agreement to arbitrate is a threshold matter which must be established before the FAA can be invoked.”
• whether an agreement to arbitrate exists at all “is a threshold matter which must be established before the FAA3 can be invoked.”
• “The existence of an agreement to arbitrate is a threshold matter which must be established before the FAA can be invoked.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).