In Re Howmedica Osteonics Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.

In the absence of a forum-selection clause, a defendant in federal court may move under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) for a transfer to' another district for “convenience” and “in the interest of justice.” But where contracting parties have specified the forum in which they will litigate disputes arising from their contract, federal courts must honor the forum-selection clause “[i]n all but the most unusual cases,” following the Supreme Court’s.instructions in Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. U.S. District Court, — U.S. -, 134 S.Ct. 568, 583, 187 L.Ed.2d 487…