Ticonderoga Farms, Inc. v. Loudoun County Board of Supervisors

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “mandatory clauses must contain specific language indicating the parties’ intent to make jurisdiction exclusive”
• holding forum selection clause stating that legal action “may be brought” in Florida was permissive rather than mandatory
• following Astraea, applying a choice-of-law clause to a breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim, and noting that '‘plaintiff's breach of fiduciary duty claim is related to contract performance”
• “Generally, courts have found that use of the words ‘may’ and ‘should’ signify permissive clauses, while use of the words ‘shall,’ ‘will,’ or ‘must’ signify mandatory clauses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).