AtriCure, Inc. v. Meng

Docket Number19-4067
Decision Date27 August 2021
AtriCure, an Ohio company, that develops medical devices to treat atrial fibrillation, contracted with Dr. Meng’s company, ZenoMed, to serve as AtriCure’s exclusive Chinese distributor. AtriCure later believed that another of Meng's Chinese companies (Med-Zenith) was attempting to market a dangerous knockoff medical device. AtriCure and ZenoMed had a “Distribution Agreement” that included confidentiality and noncompete clauses and an arbitration clause designating a Chinese entity as the...

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20 cases
  • Phillips v. Tangilag
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit
    • September 17, 2021
    ...analysis in the district court did not suffice to preserve the issue for our review on appeal. See AtriCure, Inc. v. Meng , 12 F.4th 516, 530–31 (6th Cir. Aug. 27, 2021).We ...
  • Geomatrix, LLC v. NSF Int'l
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit
    • September 12, 2023
    ...Michigan intermediate decisions to help make this "Erie guess" on the scope of these state-law claims. See, e.g., AtriCure, Inc. v. Meng, 12 F.4th 516, 531 (6th Cir. 2021). But the plain language of these Michigan intermediate decisions shows that they did not interpret the scope of the sta......
  • Firexo, Inc. v. Firexo Grp. Ltd.
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit
    • April 12, 2024
    ...an agreement to arbitrate is actually a specialized forum selection clause."). With this understanding, consider AtriCure, Inc. v. Meng, 12 F.4th 516, 520 (6th Cir. 2021), in which the defendants sought "to enforce a contract's arbitration clause even though they were not parties to, or thi......
  • Hometown Pizza, Inc. v. Hometown Pizza II, LLC
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Western District of Kentucky
    • April 27, 2022
    ... ... the relevant state law that otherwise governs” rather ... than applying a “pro-arbitration presumption.” ... AtriCure, Inc. v. Meng , 12 F.4th 516, 520 (6th Cir ... 2021) (citing Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle , 556 ... U.S. 624, 630-32 (2009)) ... ...
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