Trippe Manufacturing Company, an Illinois Corporation v. Niles Audio Corporation, a Florida Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that purchase of rights contained in third party contract did not confer direct benefit on plaintiff company, and did not estop it from challenging contract’s arbitration clause
• affirming an order compelling arbitration where the contract provided: “All disputes, claims, and controversies arising under this Agreement, or a breach thereof, shall be resolved by arbitration through the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its rules and regulations”
• \[O]nly when there is a question regarding whether the parties should be arbitrating at all is a question of arbitrability raised for the court to resolve.\
• courts “refer to principles of applicable state law when determining the existence and scope of an agreement to arbitrate”
• court deemed arbitration agreement valid where it covered “[a]ll disputes, claims, and controversies arising under [the] agreement.”
• “When determining both the existence and the scope of an arbitration agreement, there is a presumption in favor of arbitrability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).