Kamaya Co. v. American Property Consultants, Ltd.

— Plaintiffs—a group of passive investors in a Japanese real estate partnership—appeal the trial court’s order compelling them to arbitrate their fraud-in-the-inducement of the partnership agreement claims with American Property Consultants, Ltd., and its officers and directors (the APC Defendants). Plaintiffs contend that their fraud-in-the-inducement claims are not arbitrable under the partnership agreement’s arbitration clause because the partnership agreement contains a Japanese choice-of-law provision. And—according to Plaintiffs— under Japanese law, general arbitration clauses do not…