In Re N.a. Rugby Union LLC and Douglas Schoninger, Plaintiffs: v. United States of America Rugby Football Union…

Summary

The court made absolute its rule to show cause and held that Rugby International Marketing, a nonsignatory to the Sanction Agreement, could not be compelled to arbitrate merely because the agreement referred to the parties' agents. Although nonsignatories may be bound under recognized contractual or equitable doctrines, the plaintiffs established none of those doctrines here because Rugby International Marketing did not exist when the agreement was executed, never entered the contemplated agency agreement, and asserted no rights under the Sanction Agreement.