May 26, 2026
Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight
The Rule of Watson v. Professional Business Management Corporation is that a nonsignatory defendant cannot compel arbitration based solely on unverified boilerplate allegations in a complaint that it is a "successor, agent and/or alter ego" of a signatory party, under circumstances where the nonsignatory defendant denies the agency relationship and provides no factual evidence to establish its connection to the signatory.