Eckert/Wordell Architects, Inc. v. FJM Properties of Willmar, LLC

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Eckert/Wordell Architects, Inc., and Ec-kert Wordell, LLC (together “Eckert Wor-dell”), appeal the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment to FJM Properties of Willmar, LLC. The grant of summary judgment, in effect, compels the parties to submit to an arbitrator the threshold issue of whether FJM Properties of Willmar, LLC, may use an arbitration provision in a contract it did not sign to compel Eckert Wordell to arbitrate. We affirm.

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