United States Fifth Circuit

In a maritime action involving the purchase of a ship by plaintiff, a ship-owning consortium, and the ship's condition and class status as determined by defendant-classification society, dismissal of the action is affirmed where, under the direct-benefit estoppel theory, plaintiff, a non-signatory, was bound to the forum-selection clause in a contract between defendant and the ship's seller.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2006
• Published 09/08/2006

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DENNIS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Elsley, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan Heblack, Snitow, Kanter, Holtzer & Millus, New York City, Mark Cohen, Jeffrey James Putnam, Cohen, Gorman & Putnam, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.