Eastman v. Food Fair Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the district court should have decided jurisdiction before considering whether to transfer venue based on a forum selection clause
• noting that “ripeness is a Constitutional limitation on federal court jurisdiction” and therefore must be dealt with “before considering the merits of a claim”
• determining that the district court should have decided jurisdiction before considering whether to transfer venue based on a forum selection clause
• noting that a merits-based argument “does not implicate the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the breach of contract claim as pleaded”
• holding as ripe the plaintiff’s claim for declaratory relief where the defendant allegedly breached its contract with the plaintiff
• “the district court should have assured itself of [subject matter] jurisdiction before interpreting and applying the forum selection clause”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).