RED BULL ASSOCIATES v. BEST WESTERN INTERN., INC.

No. 336, Docket 88-7600.

862 F.2d 963 (1988)

RED BULL ASSOCIATES, Gordon Weiss and Murray Weiss, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BEST WESTERN INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis M. Steel, New York City, Steel Bellman & Levine, P.C. (Miriam F. Clark, New York City, with him on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Franz S. Leichter, New York City, Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green, for defendant-appellant.

Before KAUFMAN, OAKES, NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the issue whether a contractual forum selection clause should prevail when the district court found that enforcing the clause would hamper more important imperatives of the forum in which suit was brought. Because we believe the decision to transfer a case where there is a contractual choice-of-forum provision and significant public policy concerns at issue is best left to the sound discretion of the trial judge...

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