United States Second Circuit

Denial of defendant's motion to compel arbitration and grant of plaintiff's motion to stay arbitration are reversed where the district court erroneously found that the Motor Vehicle Franchise Contract Arbitration Fairness Act of 2002 limits defendant's ability to enforce its arbitration agreement with plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2006
• Published 08/08/2006

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge., Before McLAUGHLIN and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and KARAS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James C. McGrath, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston, MA (Carol E. Head and Diane C. Hertz, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., Steven H. LaBonte, Bellavia Gentile & Associates, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (Leonard A. Bellavia, Stephen A. Somerstein, and Christine Staiano, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.