Opinion ID: 852946
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Text: MPACT Construction Group, LLC, a general contractor, entered into a contract with Flying J, Inc. to construct a travel plaza in Gibson County, Indiana. [1] Flying J was the owner of the construction plaza at the time, and it is now owned by FJI Plaza III, LLC. MPACT entered into several contracts with subcontractors [2] (Subcontractors) to do the project work. Flying J failed to pay for all of the work and supplies, and so MPACT and some of the Subcontractors recorded mechanic's liens against Flying J. One of the Subcontractors, Superior Concrete Constructors, Inc., filed an action to foreclose its mechanic's lien. Several counterclaims and cross-claims for the foreclosure of mechanic's liens and for breach of contract were filed among the various parties. The contract between MPACT and Flying J is an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Standard Form Agreement Between Owner and Contractor (General Contract). Articles 1 and 9 of the General Contract incorporate by reference the AIA General Conditions of the Contract for Construction (General Conditions), and the General Conditions contain an arbitration clause. However, the subcontracts were not AIA standard form contracts but instead were contracts prepared by MPACT. After approximately six months of preparing for litigation, MPACT filed a motion to stay litigation and compel arbitration. The trial court summarily denied its motion. The Court of Appeals reversed in part, granting the motion as to Flying J, and affirmed in part, denying the motion as to the Subcontractors. MPACT Constr. Group, LLC v. Superior Concrete Constructors, Inc., 785 N.E.2d 632, 639, 640 (Ind.Ct.App.2003). We reach the same result as the Court of Appeals.