( December 18, 2025, 12:12 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge found that a Colombian coffee company’s U.S. parent acted as its principal during negotiations of a coffee bean contract that contained an arbitration clause and, therefore, granted a petition pursuant to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) to compel the parent to participate in arbitration of a more than $2.1 million contract dispute....