context: CarMax has also adduced evidence that Hernandez's job directly involved interstate commerce in that management assistants (1) hire employees who engage in interstate activity; (2) correspond with CarMax's corporate offices in Virginia; and (3) make out-of-state travel arrangements. Courts have concluded that similar employment relationships have a sufficient connection in interstate commerce that they are subject to the FAA.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: concluding that a relationship involved interstate commerce where, inter alia, defendant was a national corporation that was engaged in business in multiple states
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Herrera, 2014 WL 3398363, at *2-3 (concluding that an employment contract between CarMax and three former employees — a painter, service mechanic, and automotive service technician — involved interstate commerce); Montes v. San Joaquin Community Hospital, No. 1:13-cv-01722-AWI-JLT, 2014 WL 334912, *5 (E.D.Cal. Jan. 29, 2014) (concluding that an employment contract between plaintiff and a hospital was governed by the FAA because the hospital’s activities were involved interstate commerce); Abdullah v. Duke University Health System, Inc., No. 5:09-CV-8-FL, 2009 WL 1971622, *3 (E.D.N.C. July 8, 2009) (concluding that an employment contract between a hospital and the plaintiff “involve[d] interstate commerce because DUHS treats patients from all over the country and the world, it receives payments from individuals and entities other than North Carolina residents, and its employees travel outside of North Carolina”); Collie v. Wehr Dissolution Corp., 345 F.Supp.2d 555, 561 & n. 2, 3 (M.D.N.C.2004) (concluding that plaintiffs employment contract “involve[d] commerce” and thus was governed by the FAA because his employer, National Hearing Centers, Inc., was a “national corporation! ] involved in interstate commerce,” rejecting a contention that the “employment contract allegedly did not ‘actually involv[e] interstate commerce,” and observing that, although plaintiffs job duties had a limited relationship to interstate commerce, he had engaged interstate commerce when he, inter alia, “corresponded with National Hearing Centers, Inc.’s [out-of-state] office”); see also Allied-Bruce, 513 U.S. at 282, 115 S.Ct. 834 (concluding that a relationship involved interstate commerce where, inter alia, defendant was a national corporation that was engaged in business in multiple states).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 2014 WL 3398363, at *2-3
citation_b.parenthetical: concluding that an employment contract between CarMax and three former employees -- a painter, service mechanic, and automotive service technician -- involved interstate commerce
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Herrera, 2014 WL 3398363, at *2-3 (concluding that an employment contract between CarMax and three former employees — a painter, service mechanic, and automotive service technician — involved interstate commerce); Montes v. San Joaquin Community Hospital, No. 1:13-cv-01722-AWI-JLT, 2014 WL 334912, *5 (E.D.Cal. Jan. 29, 2014) (concluding that an employment contract between plaintiff and a hospital was governed by the FAA because the hospital’s activities were involved interstate commerce); Abdullah v. Duke University Health System, Inc., No. 5:09-CV-8-FL, 2009 WL 1971622, *3 (E.D.N.C. July 8, 2009) (concluding that an employment contract between a hospital and the plaintiff “involve[d] interstate commerce because DUHS treats patients from all over the country and the world, it receives payments from individuals and entities other than North Carolina residents, and its employees travel outside of North Carolina”); Collie v. Wehr Dissolution Corp., 345 F.Supp.2d 555, 561 & n. 2, 3 (M.D.N.C.2004) (concluding that plaintiffs employment contract “involve[d] commerce” and thus was governed by the FAA because his employer, National Hearing Centers, Inc., was a “national corporation! ] involved in interstate commerce,” rejecting a contention that the “employment contract allegedly did not ‘actually involv[e] interstate commerce,” and observing that, although plaintiffs job duties had a limited relationship to interstate commerce, he had engaged interstate commerce when he, inter alia, “corresponded with National Hearing Centers, Inc.’s [out-of-state] office”); see also Allied-Bruce, 513 U.S. at 282, 115 S.Ct. 834 (concluding that a relationship involved interstate commerce where, inter alia, defendant was a national corporation that was engaged in business in multiple states).