Deep Water Slender Wells, Ltd. v. Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc.

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.

In this business-torts case, we determine the scope and enforceability of a forum-selection clause. Two companies and the owner of their common parent company sued an international exploration and production company and three of its current or former employees, asserting various tort claims relating to the defendants’ alleged misappropriation of the plaintiffs’ alleged oilfield-technology trade secrets. The trial court enforced a forum-selection clause requiring litigation in a foreign forum and dismissed all of the claims. The main issue on appeal is…