GOLF SCORING SYSTEMS UNLIMITED v. Remedio

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the phrase “the proper venue” was limiting language that effectively excluded all others
• holding that a forum selection clause providing that Broward County was “the proper venue for all actions that may be brought pursuant to [this Agreement]” made Broward County the exclusive and mandatory forum in that case
• holding that although the forum selection clause did not contain the words “must” or “shall,” the clause was nevertheless mandatory because it limited the appropriate forum to only one option, to the exclusion of all others
• concluding forum selection clause mandatory where it stated “[t]he parties hereto consent to Broward County, Florida, as the proper venue for all actions that may be brought pursuant hereto”
• ‘Words should be given their natural meaning or the meaning most commonly understood ....” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[A] forum selection clause is considered mandatory where it requires that a particular forum be the exclusive jurisdiction for litigation concerning the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).