First American Bulk Carrier Corp. v. Van Ommeren Shipping (USA) LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was for the court to decide whether non-signatory defendant, purportedly successor-in-interest to non-party signatory, could compel arbitration against a signatory plaintiff
• arbitrator could not decide whether a non-signatory defendant was covered by the arbitration agreement because “there is much to be said for determining who are the parties to the arbitration before the arbitrators hear the merits.”
• “[T]he ‘adjacent district’ is generally viewed as one of another federal court within the same state (such as the Eastern District to the Southern District of New York), not one in a different state, even if the two states are adjacent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).