Hauenstein & Bermeister, Inc. v. Met-Fab Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that such a clause “should be given effect unless it is shown by the party seeking to avoid [it] that to do so would be unfair or unreasonable”
• explaining that appellant did not show, for example, that the product “could not have been obtained elsewhere”
• finding that the rules for waiver of a contractual defense, not the rules of venue and jurisdiction, govern a case involving a forum selection clause
• finding that business corporations presumably have personnel able to evaluate corporate agreements
• enforcing forum selection clause when “contained in an easily readable contract and consisting of only two pages”
• declining to extend holding of arbitration clause case to forum-selection clause case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).