United States Second Circuit

An American nonsignatory to an agreement to arbitrate under Egyptian law cannot be bound to arbitrate in the absence of a full showing of facts supporting an articulable theory based on American contract law or American agency law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/14/2005
• Published 04/14/2005

Judges

• BRIEANT, District Judge., Before:  NEWMAN and POOLER, Circuit Judges;  and BRIEANT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry R. Fischer, New York, N.Y. (Fischer & Mandell, LLP, New York, N.Y.), for Petitioner-Appellee., Elizabeth A. Sherwin, New York, N.Y. (Robin L. Cohen, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, New York, N.Y. on the brief), for Respondent-Appellant.