Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC v. Converteam SAS

BLOOM, District Judge:

*1320 This appeal requires us to examine seemingly interrelated-but actually quite separate-questions under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ("New York Convention" or "Convention"): (1) whether an action between a buyer and a sub-contractor of a seller "relates to" an arbitration agreement signed by the buyer and seller sufficient to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction, and (2) whether a non-signatory sub-contractor may compel arbitration against the buyer under that arbitration agreement. In following our sister circuits,…