Lawyers for South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave Co. are seeking to remove a lawsuit to federal court that claims that the company abused Facebook's data use policy.

Facebook's lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher sued Rankwave in San Mateo Superior Court in May claiming the data analytics firm refused to cooperate with a compliance audit and delete data as required by Facebook's data policy for third-party developers.

But Rankwave's lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Thursday removed the case to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Rankwave claims that the case is appropriate for federal court since the amount at stake exceeds $75,000 and the dispute is between “citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state.” The Skadden lawyers note that Facebook's claimed in the state court complaint that Rankwave had been “unjustly enriched in the amount of $9,800,000”—the alleged sale price in the data analytics firm's acquisition by a South Korean entertainment company.