United States Second Circuit

In a dispute concerning alleged price-fixing allegations in the international parcel tanker service market, denial of defendant's motion to compel arbitration is reversed where the district court improperly ruled that the price-fixing fell outside the scope of the arbitration clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2004
• Published 10/26/2004

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., POOLER, SOTOMAYOR, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Douglas Richards (Michael M. Buchman, on the brief), Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY, Eric D. Grayson, Grayson & Associates, P.C., Greenwich, CT. for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Christopher M. Curran (J. Mark Gidley and Peter J. Carney, on the brief), White & Case LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants Stolt-Nielsen SA and Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd., Steven F. Cherry, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, McLean, VA, William J. Kolasky (Edward C. DuMont, on the brief), Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants Odfjell ASA and Odfjell USA, Inc., Robert A. White (C. Donald Neville, on the brief), Murtha Cullina LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellants Jo Tankers BV and Jo Tankers, Inc., Sheila A. Huddleston (Paul D. Sanson, on the brief), Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Tokyo Marine Co., Ltd.