United States Eleventh Circuit

In a personal injury action involving a slip and fall aboard Defendant cruise line, the District Court's order granting Defendant's motion to compel arbitration is reversed where, under the parties' agreement, the dispute at issue must have some actual relation to the agreement to arbitrate, irrespective of what ship the claims originated from and when suit was brought.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2009
• Published 07/01/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before BARKETT and FAY, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph Oliver Anderson, Ralph O. Anderson, P.A., Davie, FL, David W. Brill, Downs Brill Whitehead, Pembroke Pines, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis J. Mase, Rachel S. Cohen, Mase & Lara, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.