Smith Barney Inc. v. Heiman

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane Solomon, J.), entered June 29, 1995, which granted petitioner’s application to the extent of permanently staying arbitration of any of respondent’s claims based upon the acquisition of a bond purchased prior to February 20, 1989, unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and the petition to stay the arbitration is denied.

Since the New York choice of law provision in the parties’ arbitration agreement did not explicitly provide that the agreement "and its enforcement” would be governed by New York law, and did not otherwise expressly…