Crowson v. Sealaska Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming lower court’s refusal to dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds where plaintiff was Alaska corporation with principal place of business in Juneau
• discussing equipment lease contract “covering ‘any suit arising out of the lease’ ” and holding suit “based on fraud in the inducement, ‘arises’ out of the lease, even if the complaint alleges only” tort claims
• “In Volkswagenwerk, A.G. v. Klippan, GmbH . . . this court rejected the common law rule that forum selection clauses are per se invalid and adopted in its place the reasonableness approach set out in M/S Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co. . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).