Nicosia v. Amazon.com, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• compelling husband’s claims to arbitration because he “knowingly accepted the benefit of [his wife’s] contractual relationship with Amazon” and so “must also be held to the arbitration clause that governs that relationship.”
• compelling husband’s claims to arbitration because he “knowingly accepted the benefit of [his wife’s] contractual relationship with Amazon” and so “must also be held to the arbitration clause that governs that relationship”
• discussing 23 traditional equitable estoppel and “direct benefits estoppel” whereby “a nonsignatory may be 24 compelled to arbitrate where it knowingly accepts the benefits of an agreement with an arbitration 1 clause.” (cleaned up)
• “Although Section 3 of the FAA only speaks of staying 14 proceedings, it is well-settled than an arbitrable dispute may be dismissed in lieu 15 of a stay if the defendant requests dismissal.”
• granting motions to compel arbitration and dismiss the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries
  Second Circuit· 2022-05-05· cited 25×
• Richard Daschbach, et al. v. Rocket Mortgage, LLC
  D. New Hampshire· 2023-03-22· cited 1×
• Pillar Project AG v. Payward Ventures, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2021-05-24
• Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries
  Second Circuit· 2022-09-26
• Abadi v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation
  District of Columbia· 2024-03-29

Cites

57 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 9,657×
• Mathews v. Weber
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-14· cited 8,787×
• Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2002-02-21· cited 4,118×
• Volt Info. Sciences, Inc. v. Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Jr. U.
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-06· cited 2,861×
• Perry v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-15· cited 1,187×
• Nicosia v. Amazon.com, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2016-08-25· cited 986×
• United States v. Male Juvenile (95-Cr-1074)
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-28· cited 970×
• Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-04· cited 968×
• Thomson-Csf, S.A. v. American Arbitration Association, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1995-08-24· cited 847×
• Mihalik v. Credit Agricole Cheuvreux North America, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2013-04-26· cited 827×
• Meyer v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2017-08-17· cited 511×
• register.com, Inc. v. Verio, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2004-01-23· cited 391×
• Discover Bank v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2005-06-27· cited 370×
• Nancy Kosakow v. New Rochelle Radiology Associates, P.C.
  Second Circuit· 2001-12-20· cited 295×
• Bensadoun v. Jobe-Riat
  Second Circuit· 2003-01-13· cited 220×
• Mag Portfolio Consult, Gmbh v. Merlin Biomed Group LLC and Merlin Biomed Advisors LLC
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-10· cited 209×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 92,406 R. Stockton Rush, III v. Oppenheimer & Co., and Scott Seskis
  Second Circuit· 1985-12-20· cited 200×
• Rochelle Saks v. Franklin Covey Co. And Franklin Covey Client Sales, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2003-01-15· cited 200×
• Starke v. SquareTrade, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2019-01-10· cited 200×
• Kevin Comer v. Micor, Inc. Kenneth C. Smith Elliot H. Wagner Barbara Arbucci, and Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-02-01· cited 189×