United States Second Circuit

A court may not estop a signatory from avoiding arbitration with a nonsignatory, regardless of how closely affiliated that nonsignatory is with another signing party, unless the alter-ego theory applies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/10/2001
• Published 10/10/2001

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before MINER, JACOBS, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry G. Felder (Catherine M. McGrath and Jennifer L. Gray (on the brief)) Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants., Philip Raible, Mintz & Gold LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.