Kulukundis Shipping Co. v. Amtorg Trading Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting estoppel theory, but holding that district court must adjudicate the issue of whether parties entered into an agreement at all before submitting case to arbitrator
• assenting to statement of readiness for trial and to placing of case on ready day calendar not waiver
• 9 month delay; answer amended two months before trial to assert right to arbitration; “no important intervening steps * * * taken”; held: no default
• stay under Section 3 granted more readily than specific performance under Section 4 7
• \it is our obligation to shake off the old judicial hostility to arbitration\
• “it is our obligation to shake off the old judicial hostility to arbitration”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).