Colorado Mills, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff v. Sunopta Grains and Foods Inc., a Minnesota…

Summary

The court held that a Colorado court lacks authority to enforce an arbitration subpoena against an out-of-state nonparty when the subpoena seeks discovery outside Colorado. The arbitration statute limits enforcement to the authority available in a civil action, and neither that statute nor Colorado's long-arm statute supplies extraterritorial subpoena power. The court vacated the enforcement order, made the rule absolute, and remanded for further proceedings.