Quijada v. Unifrutti of America Inc.

AVELLINO, J.,

— This (miscellaneous) litigation is before me for a second time pursuant to a statutory, grant of court access.1 Initially, it raised (at least) two intriguing questions: (1) Was a Chilean arbitrator the functional equivalent of a foreign “tribunal;” and (2) Was a Chilean farmer’s demand for arbitration based upon his suspicion (“hunch” or “reasonable belief”) that he *226was shortchanged by a Chilean exporter the functional equivalent of a “matter pending” in a Chilean tribunal?

Briefly, in 1986 and 1987, Waldo Tornel Quijada, a Chilean farmer, contracted to sell all of his grapes…