Peter Weber v. Pact XPP Technologies, AG

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• holding that a forum selection clause is mandatory only if it contains clear language specifying that litigation must occur in the specified forum
• holding that a mandatory forum selection clause “affirmatively requires that litigation arising from the contract be carried out in a given forum”
• holding that state substantive law governs the interpretation of forum selection clauses
• holding that a forum selection clause is mandatory only if it contains clear language specifying that litigation must occur in the specified forum. “[L]anguage merely indicating that the courts of a particular place shall have jurisdiction (or similar
• noting that “it is the availability of a remedy that matters, not predictions of the likelihood of a win on the merits.”
• noting that states’ individual interests in “protecting their own citizens are implicated in every case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).