Hellenic Investment Fund, Inc. v. Det Norske Veritas

How courts have described this case

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• stating that direct benefits estoppel applies to non-signatories who knowingly embrace and exploit a contract for their benefit
• applying direct benefits estoppel to a non-signatory that knew of the contract to which it was later bound
• “Having stated a claim that expressly requires that DNV’s performance be for Hellenic’s benefit, Hellenic cannot avoid the estoppel implications of its position.”
• analo- gizing to arbitration estoppel principles to bind a nonsigna- tory to a forum selection clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).