Legal Opinion
Northwestern National Insurance Company v. William F. Donovan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 17, 1990No. 90-1366 to 90-1369, 90-1377PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
An insurance company appeals from the dismissal, for want of personal jurisdiction, of five diversity breach of contract suits that it brought in a federal district court in Wisconsin. The principal ground of appeal and the only one we need discuss is that the defendants consented, in a valid forum-selection clause contained in the contract on which the suits are based, to defend the suits in Wisconsin.
The parties agree that the validity of the clause is a matter of federal common law even though state law controls the substantive issues in the suits. There is a division…
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