United States Second Circuit

Merger and forum selection clauses contained in a series of contracts do not alter the scope of agreement-to-arbitrate language in an earlier document.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/22/2005
• Decided 09/13/2005
• Published 09/13/2005

Judges

• MESKILL, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL, SACK and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce E. Coolidge, New York, N.Y. (Christopher J. Meade, Todd C. Zubler, Karen C. Daly, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, New York, NY, David S. Smith, Smith Campbell, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-X-Def-Appellant., Kenneth F. Peshkin, Great Neck, N.Y. (Janice Purvis, Joseph Yerushalmi, Yerushalmi & Associates, Great Neck, NY, of counsel), for Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.