Law360, New York (April 20, 2016, 11:24 AM EDT) -- Commercial relationships frequently extend for years and find their legal expression across multiple individual contracts. As a result, even sophisticated parties sometimes find that relationships that first take root as stand-alone transactions can eventually evolve into complex disputes involving multiple agreements executed over long periods of time. Such multicontract disputes can give rise to difficult jurisdictional questions, especially when the agreements adopt inconsistent requirements for resolving disputes. Arbitrators find themselves confronted with the unenviable job of deciding which of several interrelated but conflicting agreements governs the resolution of closely intertwined causes of action....