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Second Circuit· 8/24/1995

Thomson-Csf, S.A. v. American Arbitration Association, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

Citations

  • 64 F.3d 773
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 24146

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a non-signatory party may be subject to an arbitration agreement if her subsequent conduct indicates that she has assumed the obligation to arbitrate
  • holding that although the unwilling party received a benefit, the benefit did not derive directly from the agreement containing the arbitration clause and thus arbitration could not be compelled
  • holding that five theories, based in common law and agency 14 principles, justify binding nonsignatories to arbitration agreements: “1
  • holding that although the unwilling party received a benefit, the benefit did not derive directly from the agreement containing the arbitration clause and thus arbitration could not be compelled
  • holding that district court “improperly extended the limited theories upon which this Court is willing to enforce an arbitration agreement against a nonsignatory” by applying alternate estoppel theory when signatory sought to compel arbitration
  • holding that an “indirect benefit” not derived from the agreement itself containing the arbitration clause, is “not the sort of benefit which this [c]ourt envisioned as the basis for estop- ping a nonsignatory from avoiding arbitration”

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Judges: Meskill, Altimari, Calabresi

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