Czarina, L.L.C. v. W. F. Poe Syndicate

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a petitioner seeking to confirm an international arbitration award must comply with Article IV to establish the court’s subject matter jurisdiction
• holding that once the party requesting confirmation provides the court with certified copies of the award and arbitration agreement, the award is “presumed to be confirmable”
• noting that federal courts must \first assure themselves of their jurisdiction by deciding whether the agreement-in-writing requirement has been met\ before \enforcing an [arbitration] agreement or confirming an award under the Convention\
• following Kahn Lucas to affirm the district court’s refusal to enforce an arbitration award based on an unsigned arbitration clause
• finding sample wording, not signed by the parties, did not satisfy the \agreement in writing\ requirement
• following Kahn Lucas in holding that Article II requires a signed agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).