United States First Circuit
Bacardi International Limited v. V. Suarez & Co., Inc., 12-1032
In action brought to confirm an arbitration panel's limited award that certain contract damages provisions are valid and binding, judgment of dismissal is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the district court abused its discretion because it engaged in an incomplete Rule 19(a) analysis, and its conclusions under Rule 19 were wrong; and as a result, 2) the proceeding should not have been dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1); but 3) given the existence of a first-filed parallel case now on appeal in the local Puerto Rico courts involving the same issues, which includes plaintiff and all of the parties to the arbitration, the district court is to stay these proceedings while the proceedings in the Commonwealth courts are resolved.
Appellate Information
- Decided 05/08/2013
- Published 05/08/2013
Judges
- LYNCH
Court
- United States First Circuit