Summit Packaging Systems, Inc. v. Kenyon & Kenyon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that term in contract providing that parties “will submit” their dispute to a specified forum implied the exclusion of all other forums
• stating that “when parties agree that they ‘will submit’ their dispute to a specified forum, they do so to the exclusion of all other forums”
• noting that “it is a basic principle of contract law that constructions that render contract terms meaningless should be avoided”
• noting that it is a “basic principle of contract law that constructions that render contract terms meaningless should be avoided”
• noting that words like “will,” “shall,” or “must” indicate a mandatory forum-selection clause
• describing the word “will” as “commonly having the mandatory sense of ‘shall’ or ‘must’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).