Ferro Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Garrison Industries, Inc., Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

OPINION

ROSEN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This cross-appeal concerns the arbitrability of a Custom Manufacturing Agreement entered into by the parties. When a dispute arose concerning the agreement, Defendant-Appellant Garrison Industries, Inc. filed a demand for arbitration, alleging breach of contract. Plaintiff-Appellee Ferro Corporation initially engaged in the arbitration, but later collaterally attacked Garrison in both state and federal court.

At the center of the dispute is the District Court’s ruling that the issue of fraudulent inducement of the contract was justiciable under Ohio…