Integrated Security Services v. Skidata
609 F. Supp. 2d 1323 (S.D. Fla. 2009) (April)
The district court granted the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration. The plaintiff argued that the underlying agreement, which included an arbitration clause, was unconscionable. The district court, however, held that any question about the validity of the contract as a whole, and not the arbitration clause specifically, must be decided by the arbitrator. The district court also held that the plaintiff’s claims of interference with a contractual relationship and defamation were arbitrable and that all claims were foreseeable at the time the contract was entered into.