BriovaRx, LLC v. Transcript Pharmacy, Inc.

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The circuit court denied Brio-vaRX’s motion to compel arbitration because BriovaRX was not a party to the arbitration agreement it sought to enforce. But in Mississippi, a non-signatory can enforce an arbitration agreement when the non-signatory maintained a close legal relationship with the signatory to the agreement and the plaintiff has alleged “substantially interdependent and concerted misconduct” between the non-signatory and signatory. 1 Here, both conditions were met. BriovaRX is a subsidiary of Catamaran Corporation, which had entered into an agreement…