MS Dealer Service Corp. v. Franklin

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• holding allegations that signatory and nonsignatory defendants colluded to charge plaintiff excessive fee under purchase contract were “intimately founded in and intertwined with” plaintiffs obligations under that contract (internal quotation marks omitted)
• reversing and remanding to the district court to compel arbitration under an equitable estoppel theory
• “[U]nder agency or related principles, the relationship between the signatory and non-signatory defendants is sufficiently close that only by permitting the non-signatory to invoke arbitration may evisceration of the underlying arbitration agreement between the signatories be avoided.”
• ''[The] arbitration clause[] provid[es] that ‘buyer hereby acknowledges and agrees that all disputes and controversies of every kind and nature between buyer and Jim Burke Motors, Inc. arising out of or in connection with the purchase of this vehicle will be resolved by arbitration ....”'

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