McBro Planning and Development Company and McCarthy Brothers Company, a Joint Venture v. Triangle Electrical Construction Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a nonsignatory may compel arbitration based on estoppel and the intertwined claims test
• holding that plaintiff was estopped from opposing arbitration because its claims were “intimately founded in and intertwined with the underlying contract obligations”
• stating that “it is well established that a party may not avoid broad language in an arbitration clause by attempting to cast its complaint in tort rather than in contract”
• upholding an arbitration order because of the close relationship of the alleged wrongs to the underlying contractual duties
• signatory equitably estopped from asserting that lack of written agreement precluded arbitration where basis of claim was breach of duties assigned under agreement that contained arbitration clause
• non-signatory to contract containing arbitration clause was bound by signatory to arbitrate dispute where claims were inextricably intertwined with duties created in underlying contract and non-signatory signed a related contract which contained an arbitration clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).