KTV Media International, Inc. v. Galaxy Group, LA LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts “typically will dismiss rather than transfer a case where an applicable forum selection clause allows a plaintiff a choice of more than one permissible forum”
• holding forum selection clause to be reasonably communicated when “Kimberg—registered agent for KTV Media International—has signed many, if not all, of the agreements executed between the parties ... ”
• deciding a forum selection clause providing that the contract parties “consent[]” to the “exclusive jurisdiction” of California courts was mandatory, rather than permissive
• deciding a forum selection clause providing that the contract parties “consent[]” to the “exclusive jurisdiction” of California courts was mandatory, rather than permissive
• finding that a mandatory forum selection clause including the terms “arising out of” and “in connection with” covered claims which did not “arise out of” a contract but were “in connection with” that contract
• explaining that in determining when a claim is within the scope of a forum selection clause, the focus of the inquiry should be on whether the “gist of those claims is a breach of [the con- tractual] relationship”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).