The District Court referred a dispute to arbitration in accordance with the arbitration clause in the parties' agreement, holding that all the jurisdictional requirements for compelling arbitration under the New York Convention were met: there was an arbitration agreement in writing within the meaning of the Convention, which provided for arbitration in the territory of a Convention signatory and arose out of a legal relationship, whether contractual or not, which was considered commercial. The fourth requirement – whether at least one party to the agreement was not an American citizen, or the commercial relationship had some reasonable relation with one or more foreign states – was disputed. The Court held that although the defendants had not provided a complete list of all the underwriters participating in the policy, it appeared from the record that the relationship was not entirely between citizens of the United States. The Court dismissed the plaintiff's claim that the Convention did not apply because it was reverse-preempted by Louisiana state law on insurance, which allegedly applied by operation of the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which commits the regulation of insurance to state law. The arguments that the defendants could not compel arbitration because the arbitration provision was unenforceable as a contract of adhesion, and that the dispute did not fall within the scope of the arbitration clause, were also denied.