193769P.pdf   06/18/2021  Daredevil, Inc.  v.  ZTE Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-3769
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Kelly and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil Procedure. The Missouri district court properly 
   concluded Florida law applied to the issue of claim preclusion as the 
   arbitration award used as the basis for claim preclusion was granted in 
   Florida and confirmed by a federal district court, sitting in diversity, 
   in Florida; the Missouri district court correctly determined that under 
   Florida law plaintiff's claims for breach of contract, recission and 
   unjust enrichment against ZTE Corp. were precluded by the Florida 
   arbitration award; ZTE Corp. and ZTE USA are parent and subsidiary, and, 
   as such, are in privity for purposes of the identity-of-the-parties 
   requirement of Florida claims-preclusion law; further the claims in this 
   Missouri case are closely related to the arbitration claims and Florida's 
   identity-of-causes-of-action requirement for claims preclusion was also 
   met.