Pinto Technology Ventures, L.P. v. Sheldon

Subject to public-policy constraints, forum-selection clauses are generally enforceable in Texas.1 Though enforceability is not the concern it once was,2 courts are frequently confronted with disagreements about the specific claims encompassed and the extent to which nonsignatories may resist or enforce such clauses. In determining these matters, common principles of contract and agency law3 and the parties’ chosen language are the fulcrum of our inquiry because forum-selection clauses are creatures of contract and we must give effect

to the parties’ intent as expressed in the four corners of…