Medivas, LLC v. Marubeni Corporation

MEMORANDUM

MediVas, LLC, appeals the district court’s order compelling arbitration of certain claims against Marubeni Corporation and the district court’s subsequent confirmation of an arbitration award in favor of Marubeni. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 9 U.S.C. § 16 (a)(1)(D) and (a)(3), and we affirm.

I.

The district court properly ordered arbitration of those claims that ,are related to the Note Purchase Agreement and Agency Agreement and do not arise out of the Security Agreement. “When determining whether parties have agreed to submit to arbitration, we apply general state-law principles of contract interpretation, while giving due regard to the federal policy in favor of arbitration by resolving ambiguities as to the scope of arbitration in favor of arbitration.” Goldman, Sachs & Co. v. City of Reno, 747 F.3d 733, 742 (9th Cir.2014) (internal quotation marks omitted). The arbitration clause in the 2004 Note Purchase Agreement and Agency Agreement remained in effect to the extent that it was not specifically limited by the venue selection clause in the parties’ 2007 Security Agreement. Although “the forum selection clause[ ] need only be sufficiently specific to impute…