NRT Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Innovative Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a unilateral contract is formed when an offer is accepted by performance
• requiring “rehable evidence from the language actually employed in the contract that the parties intended the disputed issue to be the subject of arbitration, the intent of the parties being the controlling factor”
• “Arbitration clauses will be freely en forced when there is an agreement to arbitrate the subject matter of the dispute.” (citation omitted)
• “Just because parties disagree about the meaning of the words in a written agreement does not mean that [those words] are ambiguous”
• intentional interference with business relations, unjust enrichment, and civil conspiracy claims “depend[ed] on the resolution of’ arbitrable contract dispute
• arbitration of contractual issue may effectively dispose of tort claims against defendants not involved in arbitration “because how the arbitration is resolved will have an impact on whether [the plaintiff] will have evidence sufficient to make out prima facie cases in its tort claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).