Ivan Arnold v. HomeAway, Incorporated

JAMES L. DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Ivan Arnold and Deirdre Seim filed separate lawsuits against Defendant HomeAway, Inc. In each case, HomeAway sought to compel arbitration. Concluding that both Seim and Arnold are bound to arbitrate threshold arbitrability questions, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court in Arnold's case and AFFIRM the judgment in Seim's. We REMAND both cases with instructions to compel arbitration.

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