Baker v. Lamb, Leiby & MacRae

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendants could not enforce forum selection clause against nonparty where defendants failed to demonstrate a close connection between the nonparty and signatory
• holding that counterparties cannot be bound to a third-party contract unless the entities are so closely related that being bound to the contract becomes foreseeable
• applying the closely related analysis to determine that parties were not closely related and thus, could not enforce the forum-selection clause
• applying the closely related analysis to determine that parties were not closely related and thus, could not enforce the forum-selection clause
• declining to resolve the issue as state and federal law were aligned
• discussing when a forum selection clause can be enforced by non-signatories

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).