Legal Opinion
Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 1, 2002No. Docket Nos. 01-7870, 01-7872, 01-7860PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Southern District of New York denying a motion by defendants-appellants Netscape Communications Corporation and its corporate parent, America Online, Inc. (collectively, “defendants” or “Netscape”), to compel arbitration and to stay court proceedings. In order to resolve the central question of arbitrability presented here, we must address issues of contract formation in cyberspace. Principally, we are asked to determine whether plaintiffs-ap-pellees (“plaintiffs”), by acting upon defendants’ invitation to download free…
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