Geotek Alaska, Inc., Appellant v. Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., and Jacobs Field Services North America, Inc…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for Jacobs on both the arbitration-confirmation and negligence claims. It held that Jacobs’s decision whether to accept arbitration was a question of arbitrability for the court, and that the contract unambiguously gave Jacobs the unilateral right to reject arbitration. It also held that Jacobs owed GeoTek no extra-contractual tort duty to ensure payment by an insolvent subcontractor. No separate opinions were filed.