Vedachalam

MEMORANDUM **

The parties are familiar with the facts and we do not repeat them here, except as is necessary to explain our decision. Plaintiffs-appellees, Gopi Vedachalam and Kangana Beri, are Indian citizens who were employees of defendants-appellants Tata America International Corporation, et al., an Indian corporation and its affiliates (collectively, “TCS”). Vedachalam and Beri brought suit against the defendants for claims relating to their employment in California, including breach of contract and various violations of the California Labor Code. The defendants appeal the district court’s denial of their motion to compel arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“the Convention”) and its ruling that *763 there was no valid agreement to arbitrate the disputes at issue. We affirm.

The district court did not err in finding that the Service Agreements Vedachalam and Beri signed did not constitute valid agreements to arbitrate the claims alleged in their suit against TCS. The Service Agreement protects TCS from investing training resources in an employee, only to have that employee leave; it relates to a…