Koechli v. BIP Intern., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that based on unique facts of the case, “the word ‘party’ include[d] appellants, who received rights and were bound to obligations under the [applicable] agreement”
• holding that non-signatories may compel arbitration based on agency principles
• collecting cases holding that intended third-party beneficiaries of an arbitration agreement may compel arbitration by a signatory of the agreement
• reasoning non- signatory was deemed a party for arbitration purposes because the claims against it arose solely in connection with activities as an agents or officer of a signatory.
• “We note that this is not a situation in which the language of the contract expressly restricts arbitration to the signing parties.”
• where non-signatories who received rights and obligations under a contract were permitted to compel signatories to arbitration, despite the express language in the contract that only \parties hereto\ were subject to arbitration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).