Northwestern National Insurance Company v. William F. Donovan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that by agreeing to a forum selection clause, a party waives objections to venue in the chosen forum based on cost or inconvenience
• holding that federal law (Bremen) governs defendant's challenge to jurisdiction in the contractually-chosen forum
• choosing to not decide choice-of-law issues because neither party invoked interpretive principles based in either state’s law
• enforceable forum selection clause “is not to be circumvented by the grant of a motion for a change of venue”
• “There would be no point to a clause that placed venue in Milwaukee County . . . but left the defendants free to object that they were outside the court’s jurisdiction.”
• “There would be no point to a clause that placed venue in Milwaukee County at Northwestern’s option but left the defendants free to object that they were outside the court’s jurisdiction.”

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