Invista S.À.R.L. v. Rhodia, S.A.

How courts have described this case

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• “[Defendant] offers no authority for its contention that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement can compel another non-signatory to arbitrate certain claims, and we have found none.”
• “Not surprisingly, Rhodia, S.A. offers no authority . . . that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement can compel another non-signatory to arbitrate certain claims and we have found none.”
• non-signatories may assume obligations in an arbitration clause by their conduct
• Estoppel “prevents a non-signatory from ‘cherry-picking’ the provisions of a contract that it will benefit from and ignoring other provisions that don’t benefit it or that it would prefer not to be governed by (such as an arbitration clause).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).