Carr v. Gateway, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding the selection of NAF was an integral term of an arbitration clause because that forum “has a very specific set of rules and procedures that has implications for every aspect of the arbitration process”
• “[T]he mere fact [that] parties name an arbitral service to handle arbitrations and specify rules to be applied does not, standing alone, make that designation integral to the agreement.”
• Section 5 of the Act may be applied to name a substitute arbitrator where the parties’ designated arbitral forum fails
• “You agree that any Dispute between You and Gateway will be resolved exclusively and finally by arbitration administered by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF).”
• clause requiring “arbitration by and under the Code of Process of the” NAF did not mandate NAF actually conduct the arbitration
• applying Illinois contract law principles to interpret an arbitration agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).