United States v. Bigney

How courts have described this case

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• finding that where signatory company and nonsignatory company shared officers and directors, agents, and a business address, the parties were closely related for purposes of applying a forum selection clause to the non-signatories
• exercising personal jurisdiction over a non-signatory, in part, on the theory it was “closely related” to signatory of the clause based on close business relationships and alleged subsidiary functions
• non-signatory and signatory were closely related based on plaintiff's allegations that created an inference that the non-signatory functioned essentially, and exclusively, as a subsidiary of signatory
• “Forum selection clauses play a crucial role in ensuring predictability in contract formation.”
• discussing application of forum selection clause to non-signatories
• discussing application of forum selection clause to non-signatories

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).