United States Second Circuit

Although plaintiff was not a signatory to the contract containing the arbitration clause it now seeks to enforce, the petition to arbitrate should have been granted because plaintiff's claims arise under duties allegedly created by the contract, which defendant had signed, and the relationships among the parties are sufficiently close that defendant is estopped from avoiding the obligation to arbitrate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2003
• Published 09/22/2003

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Textor,Cichanowicz Callan Keane Vengrow & Textor, LLP, New York, NY, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard M. Ziccardi, Skoufalos, Llorca & Ziccardi, LLP (Manuel A. Molina, on the brief), New York, NY, for respondent-appellee.