Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties · ¶23

The District Court's pre-existing jurisdiction means that this case is not “Badgerow all over again.” Contra, Brief for Petitioner 3. In Badgerow, the first (and only) thing that had occurred in federal court was the confirm-or-vacate dispute under § 9 and § 10. See 596 U. S., at 5–6. In that circumstance, there were only two places a court could look to find federal jurisdiction: the face of the FAA motions, on the one hand, or the underlying dispute that “was not before” the court, on the other. Id., at 9. Here, however, there is an obvious third place to look for jurisdiction: the original claims themselves. Because those claims were sufficient to establish the District Court's jurisdiction in this case under 28 U. S. C. § 1331, they also established the District Court's authority to resolve the motions to confirm or vacate the arbitral award resolving those claims.

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