Copperweld Steel Co. v. Demag-Mannesmann-Boehler

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

McCUNE, District Judge.

Following our memorandum opinion of March 13, 1972, 54 F.R.D. 539, the defendant filed a motion for reconsideration of a portion of it. We decided then that the enforcement of a forum selection provision depended on the reasonableness of the provision under the facts of the particular case citing Central Contracting Co. v. C. E. Youngdahl & Co., 418 Pa. 122, 209 A.2d 810 (1965) and Central Contracting Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co., 367 F.2d 341 (3d Cir. 1966). We held that a clause encompassed in “General Conditions for the Export of Machinery” which…