and prosecute an action at law, is purely a creature of statute and, as such, requires the prevailing party to satisfy all statutory conditions necessary for the circuit court to exercise its constitutionally conferred subject-matter jurisdiction and enter judgment on the award. Clearly, then, section 16 of the Act represents a prerequisite to the circuit court’s exercise of jurisdiction over an application seeking judgment on an award specifically conditioning the court’s jurisdiction on the particular locale of the arbitration proceedings as provided for in the parties’ agreement. As stated in Chicago Southshore, only where the parties’ arbitration agreement provides for arbitration in Illinois will the Act confer jurisdiction on the Illinois .2d 110, 111-12 (Mo. App. 1990) (<HOLDING>); see also State ex rel. Tri-City Construction
holding that a trial courts decision on whether to exercise jurisdiction in a proceeding under the uniform child custody and jurisdiction enforcement act is reviewed for an abuse of discretion holding that section nine does not limit confirmation of an award to the district court in the district of arbitration and confirmed a new york arbitration over whose parties the court had personal jurisdiction holding that when the district court improperly purported to transfer to the circuit court an action over which the circuit court lacked subjectmatter jurisdiction the circuit court was without jurisdiction to enter its judgment which was void and dismissing the appeal from that void judgment holding that counterpart section of missouri uniform act confers jurisdiction on circuit courts of that state to enter judgment on an award and concluding that circuit court had no jurisdiction to act where the parties agreement provided for arbitration in new york and not missouri recognizing that only void judgments are subject to collateral attack and that a judgment is void only when court had no jurisdiction of the parties or property no jurisdiction of the subject matter no jurisdiction to enter the particular judgment or no capacity to act