— U.S.-, 119 S.Ct. 178, 142 L.Ed.2d 145 (1998); Sutter Corp. v. P & P Indus., Inc., 125 F.3d 914, 918-19 (5th Cir.1997) (resolving an apparent ambiguity in that circuit’s law to hold that “[v]enue under § 9 is not mandatory” and did not prevent a federal district court in the district in which arbitration had been brought from “staying, dismissing or transferring” the “motion to confirm” to another district); In re VMS Securities Lit., 21 F.3d 139 (7th Cir.1994) (concluding, after thorough examination of the text of the statute and comparing it with other statutory provisions, that § 9 of the FAA is permissive, and does not restrict the venue of other courts), with Sunshine Beauty Supplies, Inc. v. United States Dist. Court for the Central Dist. of Cal, 872 F.2d 310, 312 (9th Cir.1989) (<HOLDING>). See also Baltin v. Alaron Trading Corp., 128
holding that venue in the district identified in  9 was mandatory holding that if a modification petition is filed in a county where venue is appropriate it is improper to transfer the venue to another county merely because venue also would have been proper in the other county however once an enforcement proceeding is undertaken in an appropriate venue venue is improper in a different county over a subsequently filed petition to modify the decree which was the subject of the enforcement proceedings recognizing that venue was proper both in district where indictment was filed and district of confinement holding that a forumselection clause was mandatory because it provided for exclusive jurisdiction and venue in a particular court holding that the statute is mandatory