Ncr Corp V Korala

ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge. Page 807 512 F.3d 807 (6th Cir. 2008) 85 U.S.P.Q.2d 1481 NCR CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KORALA ASSOCIATES LTD., Defendant-Appellee. No. 06-3685. United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Jan. 16, 2008 Argued: Feb. 1, 2007. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio at Dayton. No. 04-00407-Michael R. Merz, Magistrate Judge. Page 808 [Copyrighted Material Omitted] Page 809 [Copyrighted Material Omitted] Page 810 ARGUED: Paul R. Gupta, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, New York, New York, for Appellant. Paul M. Fakler, Moses & Singer, New York, New York, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Paul R. Gupta, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, New York, New York, John D. Luken, Joshua A. Lorentz, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clifford R. Michel, Mayer Brown, New York, New York, for Appellant. Paul M. Fakler, Moses & Singer, New York, New York, William F. Patry, Thelen, Reid & Priest, New York, New York, for Appellee. Before: KENNEDY, BATCHELDER, and CLAY, Circuit Judges. OPINION Plaintiff NCR Corporation ("NCR") appeals Page 811 the order of the district court[1] compelling NCR and defendant Korala Associates Ltd. ("KAL") to arbitrate NCR's claims against KAL, pursuant to 9 U.S.C. § 206[2] part of Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act, see 9 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., which implements the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, June 10, 1958, 21 U.S.T. 2517, 330 U.N.T.S. 38. I. BACKGROUND NCR is one of the largest providers of Automatic Teller Machines ("ATM") equipment, integrated hardware and software systems, and related maintenance and support services in the world. NCR's ATMs use either the Windows operating system or the OS/2 operating system. NCR installs its APTRA XFS software ("APTRA XFS") on those ATMs using the Windows operating system and its S4i software ("S4i") on those ATMs using the OS/2 operating system. NCR owns a registered