Robert L. Bense v. Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the inconvenience and expense of traveling are inadequate reasons for not enforcing a contractual forum selection clause
• concluding that a broad forum-selection clause encompassed plaintiff’s antitrust action
• declining to apply law specified in contract where such application would render the forum selection clause meaningless
• holding that the forum selection clause was enforceable
• holding enforcement of forum selection clause reasonable where “the contract consist[ed] of two easily readable pages; [and] the forum-selection clause in the contract [was] not in fine print or hidden in a mass of unrelated verbiage”
• finding complaint brought under federal antitrust law arose from distribution agreement between parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).