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state court to the federal court "at any time prior to trial." 9 |
| U.S.C. §§ 203, 205. The statute covers any commercial agreement |
| to arbitrate and the resultant arbitration award unless the |
| matter involves only American citizens and has no reasonable |
| relationship to any foreign country and the courts have broadly |
| applied the statute. Therefore, it is unlikely that state |
| arbitration law will have major application to an international |
| case. There are two instances where state arbitration law might |
| apply in the international context: (1) where the parties |
| designate a specific state arbitration law to govern the |
| international arbitration and (2) where all parties to an |
| arbitration proceeding involving an international transaction |
| decide to proceed on a matter in state court and do not exercise |
| their rights of removal under Chapter 2 of Title 9 and the |
| relevant provision of state arbitration law is not preempted by |
| federal arbitration law or the New York Convention. In these |
| relatively rare cases, the state courts will refer to the RUAA |
| unless the State has enacted a special international arbitration |
| law. |
