M & C Corporation, a Michigan Corporation, D/B/A Connelly Company v. Erwin Behr Gmbh & Co., Kg, a Foreign Corporation

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a challenge by Erwin Behr GmbH & Co., KG, to a district court order confirming an international arbitration award. Behr contends that the arbitrator exceeded his authority by assessing damages that were outside the scope of the arbitration proceeding’s terms of reference. Behr also insists that because the contested damage award is in manifest disregard of the law and is based upon a miscalculation of fact, it must be set side under the Federal Arbitration Act. For the reasons set out below, we disagree and we therefore affirm.

I. PROCEDURAL AND…