WMT Investors, LLC v. Visionwall Corp

In WMT Investors, LLC v. Visionwall Corp., No. 09 Civ. 10509, 2010 WL 2720607 (S.D.N.Y. 2010), a federal district court interpreted an arbitration clause that allowed a party to seek equitable relief from any judicial court of proper jurisdiction by way of temporary and permanent injunctions. The federal district court rejected a litigant's argument that under the terms of the arbitration agreement, any claim forming the basis of a demand for injunctive relief was not subject to arbitration. The court explained that the only way to interpret the contract so that all its provisions dwelled in harmony with each other was to conclude that the provision regarding injunctive relief was available to parties "in aid of arbitration, rather than . . . transforming arbitrable claims into nonarbitrable ones depending on the form of relief prayed for."