arbitration of disputes)”). The Defendant’s cause of action arises from the actions of Anthony Mieciche in giving advice regarding investments at a time when Anthony Mieciche was a registered representative of IFG Securities, a brokerage firm in the business of providing investment advice through its representatives. Inasmuch as the NASD Code of Conduct requires IFG Securities to supervise its registered representatives, this Court finds that the Defendant’s claim has a “sufficient nexus” to IFG Securities’ business activities so as to entitle the Defendant to arbitration in conformance with the NASD Code of Arbitration Procedure. Daugherty v. Washington Square Sec., Inc., 271 F.Supp.2d at 691-92 (W.D.Pa.2003); Washington Square Sec. v. Sowers, 218 F.Supp.2d 1108, 1116-18 (D.Minn.2002) (<HOLDING>). VI. CONCLUSION Having conducted a de novo
holding that supervising a registered representative is a nasd member firms business holding that customers of registered representative were customers of memberfirm holding that investors who were customers of an associated person were not customers of a nasd member without evidence of a firsthand customer relationship holding that plaintiffs who are customers of a registered representative of a nasd member firm are customers of the nasd member firm for purposes of compelling arbitration holding that a nasd member is required to arbitrate claims brought by the customer of an associated person