SPRINGFIELD IRON & METAL, LLC v. Westfall

DANIEL E. SCOTT, Judge.

This interlocutory appeal arises from multi-claim business litigation. The plaintiff and one defendant were parties to an agreement with an arbitration clause. Third-party defendants, who had not signed the agreement, joined the plaintiff in a motion to compel arbitration of claims against them. The trial court ruled that the arbitration clause applied to and bound only its signatories and compelled only those parties to arbitrate.

We reject the non-signers’ appeal, which seeks to compel arbitration against them as well, because arbitration is ultimately a matter of…