Court Enforces Agreement to Arbitrate in Online Terms and Conditions
July 31, 2014The only issue before the Court in this case was whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration. The plaintiffs signed up to be Independent Representatives (apparently, a type of sales rep) for the defendants. As part of the online application process, plaintiffs clicked a box confirming that they agreed to the defendant’s terms and conditions. Those terms and conditions contained a provision providing that any dispute between the parties would be resolved by binding arbitration.
It turns out that the Court recently upheld the exact same arbitration provision in a case against the same defendants. Consequently, without much substantive analysis, the Court referenced its prior opinion and reversed the trial court, holding that there was a valid agreement to arbitrate between the parties.
