Cd Partners, LLC v. Grizzle

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• holding that the close relationship test allowed three corporate officers to compel arbitration under an arbitration agreement to which their corporation was a signatory
• discussing when a nonsignatory can enforce an arbitration clause without referencing any particular state's law
• noting that a nonsignatory can force a signatory into arbitration “when the relationship of the persons, wrongs and issues involved is a close one” and, here “the core of the dispute is the conduct of the three nonsig natories in fulfilling signatory CDWI’s promises”
• permitting a nonsignatory to enforce an arbitration clause under alternative estoppel
• arbitration compelled where franchisee’s claims arose directly out of and related to its operation of franchises under agreement containing arbitration clause
• “Broadly worded arbitration clauses ... are generally construed to cover tort suits arising from the same set of operative facts covered by a contract between the parties to the agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).