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• holding that a court must decide whether the signature of an agent bound the principal to a contract containing an arbitration provision
• holding that Section 4 of the FAA requires courts to “pass[] judgment on the formation or existence of the container contract”
• recognizing that the United States is a signatory to the CREFAA and that the CREFAA is implemented domestically through the FAA
• recognizing that refusing appeal circumvents FAA’s purpose to enforce binding arbitration agreements
• holding that “when the very existence of … an [arbitration] agreement is disputed, a district court is correct to refuse to compel arbitration until it resolves the threshold question of whether the arbitration agreement exists”
• holding that “when the very existence of ... an [arbitration] agreement is disputed, a district court is correct to refuse to compel arbitration until it resolves the threshold question of whether the arbitration agreement exists”

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