Phoenix Aktiengesellschaft v. Ecoplas, Inc. (Formerly Known as Plastek Corporation, Formerly Known as Plaslok Corporation)

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Ecoplas, Inc. (“Ecoplas”) appeals from a judgment entered in the United- States District Court for the Western District of New York (Arcara, J.) granting a motion by Phoenix Aktiengesellschaft (“Phoenix”) to confirm an arbitration award. Because 9 U.S.C. § 207 preempts the consent-to-confirmation requirement of 9 U.S.C. § 9 in cases brought pursuant to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, June 10, 1958, 21 U.S.T. 2517, T.I.A.S. No. 6997 (the “Convention”), we reject Ecoplas’s conten tion that the lack of consent to confirmation…