MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORP. v. SOLER CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH

No. 82-1913.

723 F.2d 155 (1983)

MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. SOLER CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Rodriguez-Ramon, San Juan, P.R., with whom Jerome Murray, Robert G. Post, John Nocera, New York City, and Rodriguez-Ramon, Pena & Cancio, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Wayne A. Cross, New York City, with whom Robert L. Sills, William I. Sussman, William Dunnegan, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York City, Samuel T. Cespedes, Ana Matilde Nin, and McConnell Valdes Kelley Sifre Griggs & Ruiz-Suria, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

William F. Baxter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson, Marion L. Jetton, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Harold G. Maier, Counselor on International Law, Robert K. German, Atty., Dept. of State, Washington, D.C., on the brief, for amicus curiae.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Corp. appeals from the grant of an order compelling arbitration of certain claims and counterclaims between it and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. The principal issue on this appeal is whether arbitration of federal antitrust claims may be compelled under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 4, 201, and the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 21 U.S.T. 2517 (1970).

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