AT&T Techs., Inc. v. Commc'ns Workers of Am.

Holding that it was for the court to decide whether a particular labor dispute fell within the arbitration clause of a collective-bargaining agreement

Shaffer v. Heitner

Holding that, once a judgment is validly rendered against a debtor, the judgment creditor may sue to satisfy the debt with property in a state that lacks personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtor

John Wiley Sons v. Livingston

Holding that a court should decide whether an arbitration agreement survived a corporate merger and bound the resulting corporation

Glencore Grain Rotterdam B.V. v. Shivnath Rai Harnarain Co.

Holding that there was no general jurisdiction where a defendant's only contacts with California amounted to sixteen shipments of rice sold through an independently employed sales agent

Kramer v. Toyota Motor Corp.

Holding that even though the arbitration agreement contained a delegation clause, the contract's limitation to "either you or we" meant there was not "clear and unmistakable evidence that Plaintiffs agreed to arbitrate arbitrability with nonsignatories"

Beiser v. Weyler

Holding that a dispute "relates to" an arbitration clause "whenever the clause could conceivably have an affect on the outcome of the case"

Wallace v. Microsoft Corp.

Holding that where service was not timely prior to removal, plaintiffs had additional time to properly serve defendant under federal rules

Go-Video, Inc. v. Akai Electric Co.

Holding that venue and service-of-process provisions of § 12 operate independently

Office Depot Inc. v. Zuccarini

Holding that "domain names are intangible property subject to a writ of execution"

Rice v. Alpha Sec., Inc.

In Rice, the defendants removed the case to federal court after it was too late to perfect service under state law, which subjected the case to dismissal with prejudice in state court.

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Section 1331 - Federal question

Finding that in order to invoke federal question jurisdiction, a plaintiff's claims must arise "under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States."

Rule 4 - Summons

Holding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time

Rule 81 - Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions

Recognizing that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure "apply to proceedings for habeas corpus . . . to the extent that the practice in those proceedings: is not specified in a federal statute, the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, or the Rules Governing Section 2255 Cases; and (B) has previously conformed to the practice in civil actions."

Section 201 - Enforcement of Convention

Providing that the New York Convention "shall be enforced in United States courts in accordance with [other provisions of the FAA]"

Section 207 - Award of arbitrators; confirmation; jurisdiction; proceeding

Authorizing petitions to confirm awards "as against any other party to the arbitration"

Section 1448 - Process after removal

Recognizing that “any defendant upon whom process is served after removal” has the right to move to remand the case

Section 202 - Agreement or award falling under the Convention

Stating that arbitral awards "arising out of [a commercial] relationship which is entirely between citizens of the United States" fall outside the Convention

Section 203 - Jurisdiction; amount in controversy

Granting original jurisdiction to district courts over proceedings arising under the Convention

Rule 7 - Summons