Stamm v. Barclays Bank

Plaintiff-Appellant Arthur Allan £>tamm (“Plaintiff’) appeals from a judgment, entered August 8, 1997, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shira A. Scheindlin, Judge) dismissing with prejudice his First Amended Complaint on the basis of forum selection and choice of law provisions to which he had agreed.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff is an individual who acts as an underwriter, or “Name”, of insurance policies traded in the insurance market operated by Defendants-Appellees Corporation of Lloyd’s, Council of Lloyd’s and Committee of Lloyd’s (collectively,…