ABADOU v. TRAD

No. 4791.

624 P.2d 287 (1981)

Jean-Marc ABADOU, Appellant, v. Dimitri N. TRAD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Nosek, Jr., and Brian R. Shute, Anchorage, for appellant.

Charles P. Flynn, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Inc., Anchorage, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and COOKE, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

The only issue presented is a narrow one: the validity and effect of a contractual choice-of-forum clause designating Lebanon's courts as the exclusive forum for the resolution of disputes arising from the parties' contract.1

At the time of the contract, entered into at Beirut in 1974, appellant Abadou was a French national and appellee Trad was a Lebanese citizen. Both resided in Beirut...

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