Government e-Management Solutions, Inc. v. American Arbitration Assn

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Judge.

Defendant arbitration association appeals from the trial court’s judgment declaring that defendant has no authority to determine if plaintiff is a proper party to an arbitration proceeding pending in California, and that any award entered in that arbitration is not binding on plaintiff. We reverse and remand with instructions to dismiss the action because Missouri courts have no jurisdiction to determine who is a *859party to and who is bound by an arbitration proceeding pending in California pursuant to a contract that provided for arbitration in a state other than…