Genesco, Inc. v. Kakiuchi

How courts have described this case

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

• holding under “general contract principles” that buyer agreed to arbitrate disputes arising under unsigned sales confirmation forms due to parties’ course of dealing and buyer’s signatures on related sales confirmation forms
• “Hence whether Genesco is bound by the arbitration clause of the sales confirmation forms is determined under federal law, which comprises generally accepted principles of contract law”
• “We focus not on whether there was subjective agreement as to each clause in the contract, but on whether there was objective agreement with respect to the entire contract”
• RICO claims alleging that suppliers engaged in conspiracy to overcharge and supply defective goods were \matters relating to the agreements between the parties\
• “[w]e focus not on whether there was subjective agreement as to each clause in the contract, but on whether there was an objective agreement with respect to the entire contract”
• “In determining whether a particular claim falls within the scope of the parties’ arbitration agreement, [courts] focus on the factual allegations in the complaint rather than the legal causes of action asserted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).