E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. v. Rhone Poulenc Fiber and Resin Intermediates, S.A.S.

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• recognizing that the existence of an agency relationship is a “fact-intensive inquiry” to be decided by the trial court
• holding that third party beneficiary will only be bound by the terms of the underlying contract in cases in which the claims it asserts arise from its third party beneficiary status
• holding that an arbitration agreement is binding on a non-signatory affiliate corporation
• explaining that a parent company not explicitly named in an agreement “was not an intended third party beneficiary ... any more than any parent who expects to benefit from the success of ... [its] subsidiary”
• reaffirming that “[t]raditional principles of agency law may bind a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement.”
• noting that estoppel can (1) work to prevent a nonsignatory from avoiding arbitration and (2) bind a signatory to arbitrate at the nonsignatory’s insistence

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