BENASRA v. MARCIANO

No. B143431.

112 Cal.Rptr.2d 358 (2001)

92 Cal.App.4th 987

Michel BENASRA, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Paul MARCIANO et al. Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 2001.

Review Denied January 16, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Q'Melveny & Myers, Daniel M. Petrocelli, Los Angeles, Robert C. Welsh, H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui and Jennifer E. Laser, for Defendants and Appellants.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Los Angeles, Barry B. Langberg, Deborah Drooz and Stuart S. Johnson, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


MIRIAM A. VOGEL, J.

This is a libel action in which the defendants (a corporation and its president) claim the plaintiff (an individual) ought to be compelled to arbitrate simply because he is president of another corporation that had a licensing agreement with the defendant corporation. The essence of the defendants' position is that the plaintiff, who happens to have signed the licensing agreement as president of another corporation, is bound by the arbitration...

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