Artrip v. Samons Construction Inc.

OPINION VACATING AND REMANDING

COMBS, Judge:

Mitchell Artrip appeals a judgment affirming an arbitrator’s award in favor of the appellee, Samons Construction, Inc. The sole issue for this court’s consideration is whether the Boyd Circuit Court had subject matter jurisdiction to enforce the arbitrator’s award rendered in Ohio pursuant to a contract that did not provide for arbitration to take place in Kentucky. After our careful review of Kentucky law and that of other jurisdictions construing the Uniform Arbitration Act, we conclude that the lower court did not have jurisdiction to enforce the…