FDA Packaging Inc. v. Advance Personnel Staffing Inc.

LASH, J.,

The matter before this court is the emergency petition of plaintiff, FDA Packaging Inc., to stay arbitration proceedings pursuant to FDA’s declaratory judgment action. Defendant, Advance Personnel Staffing Inc., has moved for arbitration, seeking damages from FDA for breach of contract for failure to make payments when due. Our determination on whether to stay the arbitration rests on whether FDA is bound by an agreement executed on FDA’s behalf by FDA’s office manager, as the agreement contains an arbitration provision requiring that all controversies or disputes between the parties…