Simula, Inc. v. Autoliv, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a clause encompassing “[a]ll disputes arising in connection with this Agreement” should be construed and applied liberally
• concluding that arbitration clause language “ ‘arising in connection with’ reaches every dispute between the parties having a significant relationship to the contract and all disputes having their origin or genesis in the contract”
• finding that the claims in the complaint need only “ ‘touch matters’ ” covered by the agreement containing the arbitration provision (quoting Mitsubishi, 473 U.S. at 624 n.13)
• finding that the plaintiff’s claim of “fraud in the inducement and economic duress of the 1995 Agreement as a whole . . . are questions for the arbitrator”
• explaining that the denial of arbitration-related discovery is reviewed for abuse of discretion
• observing that the “standard for demonstrating arbitrability is not high . . . . [so that] district courts [must] direct the parties to procced to arbitration on issues as to which an arbitration agreement has been signed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).