Dakota Foundry, Inc. v. Tromley Industrial Holdings, Inc.

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Tromley Industrial Holdings, Inc. (Tromley) appeals the district court’s 1 denial of its motion to compel arbitration. We affirm.

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Dakota Foundry, Inc., (Dakota) is an iron foundry located in Webster, South Dakota. Tromley is an Oregon business which sells foundry equipment and is the parent company of Kloster Foundry Products (Kloster).

This dispute centers on certain equipment Dakota purchased from the Kloster division of Tromley. Doug Valsvig, the vice president and controller of Dakota, contacted Warren Wilson, a sales representative of the Kloster division, in the Fall…