Shaffer v. Stratton Oakmont, Inc.

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• refusing to find a third-party beneficiary relationship generating an obligation to arbitrate in analogous circumstances
• public policy in favor of arbitration does not give courts license to compel arbitration when there has been no agreement to arbitrate
• intro- ducing broker's supervisory power over account and investor's lack of communication with clearing broker do not establish that investor empowered introducing broker to invoke arbitration clause in inves- tor's agreement with clearing broker

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