MEMORANDUM ***
The district court remanded these cases to the Los Angeles Superior Court after finding that the contracts at issue selected that court as the exclusive forum for the parties’ dispute. We affirm.
We have jurisdiction to hear defendants’ appeals from the district court’s remand order. See Kamm v. ITEX Corp., 568 F.3d 752, 757 (9th Cir.2009). Federal law governs the enforceability of forum selection clauses in cases removed on the basis of diversity jurisdiction. See Manetti-Farrow, Inc. v. Gucci Am., Inc., 858 F.2d 509, 513 (9th Cir.1988). We review de novo the district court’s interpretation of a forum selection clause. See Hunt Wesson Foods, Inc. v. Supreme Oil Co., 817 F.2d 75, 77 (9th Cir.1987).
The clause — stating that “litigation shall be subject to the laws and Rules of Evidence of the state of California with the venue being Los Angeles County Superior Court” — requires that claims arising from the contract be litigated in the Los Ange-les County Superior Court. “This language requires enforcement of the clause because [defendants] not only consented to the jurisdiction of the state courts of [California], but further agreed by mandatory language that the venue for all actions arising out of the [contract] would be [Los Angeles County Superior Court].” Docksider, Ltd. v. Sea Tech., Ltd., 875 F.2d 762, 764 (9th Cir.1989) (interpreting the clause “Venue of any action brought hereunder shall be deemed to be in Gloucester County, Virginia.”).
The clause does not use permissive language nor does it merely evince consent to the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Superi- or Court. The clause is therefore distinguishable from the clauses at issue in the *699cases relied on by defendants. See Hunt Wesson, 817 F.2d at 76-78 (“The courts of California, County of Orange, shall have jurisdiction over the parties in any action at law relating to the subject matter or the interpretation of this contract.”); N. Cal. Dist. Council of Laborers v. Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel Co., 69 F.3d 1034, 1036 (9th Cir.1995) (“A decision of the Board of Adjustment ... or the decision of a permanent arbitrator shall be enforceable by a petition to confirm an arbitration award filed in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California.”).
AFFIRMED.