Is 'Hobbs & Shaw' still 'Fast and Furious'?

After nine movies in 16 years, the Fast and Furious franchise still seems to be alive and well. The parties to the following action agreed that any dispute regarding the movies, including sequels and remakes, would be resolved in arbitration. But does that agreement cover the recent movie starring longtime protagonists Hobbs and Shaw, which doesn’t bear the Fast and Furious name?

What’s in a name?

Since 2001, Neal Moritz worked for Universal City Studios LLC as a producer for the film The Fast and the Furious and several sequels, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast and Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, and The Fate of the Furious.

For the first seven movies, the parties had contracts containing a clear arbitration clause. A contract designed to govern movies eight through 10 included no separate arbitration clause but applied the earlier arbitration clauses to any movies produced as “sequels” or “remakes.”