Magnolia Capital Advisors Inc. v. Bear Stearns & Co.

Plaintiff-appellant Magnolia Capital Ad-visors, Inc. (“Magnolia”) appeals the order of the district court compelling arbitration as to its claims against defendants-appel-lees Bear Stearns & Co. and Bear Stearns Securities Corp. (collectively “Bear Stearns”). 1 Magnolia argues that the court ordered arbitration and dismissed its claims without affording it the trial required by 9 U.S.C. § 4, even though Magnolia had unequivocally denied having agreed to arbitrate and produced evidence to substantiate that denial. We REVERSE and REMAND.

I. BACKGROUND

Magnolia was a registered investment advisory…