KRAMER v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.

No. 12-55050.

705 F.3d 1122 (2013)

Jessica KRAMER, Plaintiff, and Alexsandra Del Real; Michael Choi; Michael Scholten, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated; Lu Li, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, a Japanese corporation/a foreign corporation, DBA Toyota Motor North America, Inc.; Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., a California corporation/a foreign corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 30, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. ; William E. Thomson ; Blaine H. Evanson ; Brandon J. Stoker , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Michael L. Mallow ; Denise A. Smith-Mars ; Rachel A. Rappaport , Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Diogenes P. Kekatos , Seeger Weiss LLP, New York, NY; Vahn Alexander ; Christopher B. Hayes , Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, Marc L. Godino , Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: ANDREW J. KLEINFELD and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and GORDON J. QUIST, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

QUIST, District Judge:

Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (collectively "Toyota" or "Defendants") seek review of the district court's denial of their motion to compel arbitration. The district court held that Toyota, a nonsignatory to several agreements with arbitration provisions between Plaintiffs and various Toyota dealerships (hereinafter "Dealerships"), could not compel Plaintiffs...

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