Can a non-signatory party to an arbitration agreement be used as a third party beneficiary?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Selby v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Am., Civil No.12cv01562 AJB (BGS) (S.D. Cal. 2013):

Paper, 206 F.3d at 416; see also Comer v. Micor, Inc., 436 F.3d 1098, 1101 (9th Cir. 2006) ("non-signatories can enforce arbitration agreements as third party beneficiaries.")

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