selection clause, the court must determine whether the forum selection clause is enforceable under the FAA. The FAA provides in relevant part: A written provision in ... a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising out of such contract or transaction, or the refusal to perform the whole or any part thereof ... shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract. 9 U.S.C. § 2. Accordingly, the forum selection clause must be enforced unless there are legal or equitable grounds sufficient to revoke the agreement. Typically, the grounds for revoking an arbitration contract are the classic state-law c *3 (M.D.N.C. Mar.31, 2004) (unpublished) (<HOLDING>). IDC disagrees and relies on the FAA. As
holding that when a forum selection clause designates  an arbitral forum  the proper remedy is dismissal holding that venue for litigation was proper based on 28 usc  1441 even though forum selection clause provided that the courts of the commonwealth of massachusetts would be the exclusive forum holding order dismissing action without prejudice based on contractual forum selection clause is final and appealable because it terminates the litigation in the plaintiffs chosen forum holding that a permissive forum selection clause containing a waiver of any claims of forum non conveniens amounts to a mandatory forum selection clause at least where the plaintiff chose the designated forum holding that venue for litigation was proper based on 28 usc  1441 regardless of whether defendant was doing business in the district within the meaning of 28 usc  1391