Legal Opinion
Blimpie International, Inc. v. D'Elia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 14, 2000PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered July 6, 1999, which granted respondent’s motion for a stay of the main action pend*70ing arbitration of appellants’ counterclaims, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly applied Federal law in determining whether respondent had waived its right to arbitrate under an agreement governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ([FAA] 9 USC § 1 et seq.). When an agreement to arbitrate falls within the scope of the FAA, “[flederal law in the terms of the Arbitration Act governs [the] issue [of arbitrability] in either…
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