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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
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DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS :
TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSET :
TRUST 2006-6, MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH
Index No. 105818/2009
CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-6,
:
Plaintiff, :
:
-against- :
ROYAL BLUE REALTY HOLDINGS, INC.; THE BOARD OF :
MANAGERS OF 130 BARROW STREET CONDOMINIUM :
HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; SING YU :
INTERNATIONAL, INC. D/B/A/ SY MARBLE AND :
GRANITE IMPORTERS AND DISTRIBUTORS; ET. AL., :
:
Defendants. :
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ROYAL BLUE REALTY HOLDINGS, :
Third Party Plaintiff, :
-against- :
:
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OCWEN :
LOAN SERVICING, LLC :
:
Third Party Defendants. :
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MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT OCWEN
LOAN SERVICING LLC'S MOTION TO DISMISS THE THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10104
(212) 541-2000
Attorneys for Third-Party Defendant
Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC
(now known as PHH Mortgage Services, successor
to Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC)
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TABLEOF CONTENTS
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT....................................................................................................
1
SUMMARY OF THE THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFF'S ALLEGATIONS.................................... 2
ARGUMENT..................................................................................................................................
4
POINT I ROYAL BLUE'S CLAIM IS PRECLUDED BY
THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE......................................................
4
POINT II THE COMPLAINT AGAINST OCWEN SHOULD BE
DISMISSED BECAUSE ROYAL BLUE LACKS STANDING
TO ENFORCE THE CONSENT JUDGMENT............................................
6
POINT III ROYAL BLUE'S CLAIM AGAINST OCWEN IS TIME
BARRED.....................................................................................................
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POINT IV ROYAL BLUE HAS NOT ADEQUATELY PLED A CAUSE
OF ACTION AGAINST OCWEN..............................................................
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CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Page(s)
Cases
Ahrorgulova v. Mann,
144 A.D.3d 953 (2d Dep't 2016)...............................................................................................5
Benjamin v. Fremont Inv.t & Loan.
2018 WL 4017595 (D. Mass. Aug. 22. 2018).........................................................................1O
Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores.
421 U.S. 723 (1975).................................................................................................................1
1
Briggs v. Chapman,
53 A.D.3d 900............................................................................................................................5
Brownrigg v. New York City Hous. Auth..
29 A.D.3d 721 (2d Dep't 2006).................................................................................................5
Caniglia v. Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Inc..
204 A.D.2d 233 (1994)..............................................................................................................8
Cruz v. NYNEX Info. Res..
263 A.D.2d 285 (1st Dep't 2000)..............................................................................................8
Douglas v. Southstar Funding LLC.
2018 WL 6136793 (N.D. Ga. Oct. 18, 2018)............................................................................9
FG Harriman Commons. LLC, et al. v. FBG Owners, LLC. et al..
75 A.D.3d 527 (2d Dep't 8
2010).............................................................................................7,
Harvin v. Nationwide Title Clearing.
632 Fed. App'x 599 (11th Cir. 2016).......................................................................................1O
J-Mar Serv. Ctr., Inc. v Mahoney. Connor & Hussey.
45 A.D.3d 809 (2d Dep't 2007).................................................................................................4
Jones v. Archibald.
45 A.D.2d 532 (4th Dep't 1974)................................................................................................6
Jones v. Bank of Am. Nat. Ass'n.
2013 WL 4017344 (Sup. Ct. Kings Cnty. July 29, 2013)........................................................13
Jurewitz v. Bank of Am.. N.A.,
938 F. Supp. 2d 994 (S.D. Cal. 2013)......................................................................................11
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Karmol v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC,
2017 WL 3071496 (W.D. Mich. July 19, 2017)......................................................................10
Keyama-Joy El v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, 2016 WL 4224972 at *l
(N.D. Ga. Jan. 27, 2016), report and recommendation adopted as modified
sub nom. 2016 WL 4257771 (N.D. Ga. Mar. 29, 2016)............................................................9
Martin v. City of Cohoes,
37 N.Y.2d 162 (1975)................................................................................................................4
News Am. Mltg, Inc. v. LePage Bakeries, Inc.,
16 A.D.3d 146 (1st Dep't 2005)................................................................................................6
NYP Holdings, Inc. v. McClier Corp.,
83 A.D.3d 426 (1st Dep't 2011)................................................................................................5
O'Donnell, Fox & Gartner v. R-2000 Corp..
198 A.D.2d 154 (lst Dep't 8
1993)...........................................................................................7,
Performance Comercial Importadora E Exportadora Ltda v. Sewa Int'l.Fashions Pvt. Ltd.
79 A.D.3d 673 (1st Dep't 2010)................................................................................................6
Rehbein v. CitiMortgage, Inc..
937 F. Supp. 2d 753 (E.D. Va. Apr. 4, 2013)..........................................................................11
S.E.C. v. Dollar Gen. Corp.,
378 F. App'x 511 (6th Cir.2010)..............................................................................................11
Sandaler v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.,
2017 WL 5443149 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 14, 2017)........................................................................10
Schwatka v. Super Millwork. Inc.,
106 A.D.3d 897 (2d Dep't 2013)..............................................................................................13
Travelers Ins. Co. v. Ferco. Inc.,
122 A.D.2d 718 (lst Dep't 1986).............................................................................................13
U.S. Bank. N.A. as Tr.for Registered Holders of AEGIS v. Richardson.
2018 WL 5722680 at *4 (N.D. Tex. July 30, 2018), report and
recommendation adopted sub nom. 2018 WL 3868701 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 14,
2018), objections overruled, 2018 WL 5722672 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 22, 2018).........................10
Wilson v. HSBC Mortg. Servs. Inc.,
744 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2014)........................................................................................................11
Matter of Yeampierre v Gutman,
57 A.D.2d 898 (4th Dep't 1977)................................................................................................4
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Zanett Lombardier, Ltd. v. Maslow.
29 A.D.3d 495 (1st Dep't 8
2006).............................................................................................7.
Statutes
15 U.S.C. § 1602(i)..........................................................................................................................9
15 U.S.C. § 1692 (a) ........................................................................................................................9
N.Y. Gen. Bus. L. § 399-e...............................................................................................................9
N.Y. Gen. Bus. L. § 399-p(1)(c)......................................................................................................9
N.Y. Gen. Oblig. L. § 5-327(1)(a)...................................................................................................9
N.Y. UCC § 9-109(1) ......................................................................................................................9
Rules
N.Y. CPLR § 105(f).........................................................................................................................9
N.Y. CPLR § 3016(b)....................................................................................................................13
N.Y. CPLR § 8, 12
3211(a)(1)........................................................................................................6,
N.Y. CPLR § 6. 12
321l(a)(5)........................................................................................................4,
N.Y. CPLR § 3211(a)(7)........................................................................................................
passim
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PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff Royal Blue Realty Holdings ("Royal Blue") repeats a
baseless claim made against Plaintiff Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee For
American Home Mortgage Asset Trust 2006-6, Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates
Series 2006-6 ("Plaintiff") in a seeming attempt to further derail the foreclosure of the subject
property. Here, Royal Blue asserts a single cause of action against Ocwen Loan Servicing. LLC
("Ocwen") contending that Ocwen's alleged misconduct should void the mortgages being
action.¹
foreclosed herein in the main
The purported basis for relief against Ocwen is that Plaintiff did not sufficiently allege its
to foreclose and that in connection therewith, Ocwen - as
standing somehow, apparently
Plaintiff's loan servicer - violated a consent judgment unspecified false statements in
by making
Court.2
unspecified affidavits and submissions to the
Royal Blue's claim against Ocwen should be dismissed. As an initialmatter, as discussed
in Point I, this Court already twice heard and rejected Royal Blue's argument that Plaintiff did
not allege - first on Royal Blue's motion to dismiss the Amended
sufficiently standing
Complaint (Motion Seq. # 5, NYSCEF # 13) and then again on Royal Blue's motion to reargue
the denial of its motion to dismiss (Motion Seq. # 7, NYSCEF # 114). The law of the case
doctrine precludes Royal Blue from this same argument - this time against Ocwen.
repackaging
Ocwen Financial Corporation acquired PHH Mortgage Corporation, dba PHH Mortgage
Services. PHH Mortgage Services is the successor to Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC and
should have been named in this action. See Berger Aff. ¶ 2.
2
Royal Blue also brings two claims against the New York State Attorney General seeking
a declaration that the mortgages are not secured by a lawfully formed residential
condominium unit and that this real property cannot be mortgaged, foreclosed or sold.
Royal Blue cause of action against Ocwen is not premised on thisalleged invalidity.
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Second, as discussed in Point II, infra, the Third-Party Complaint should be dismissed
based on documentary evidence. Royal Blue's claim against Ocwen is premised on Ocwen's
alleged violation of a December 2014 Consent Judgment to which the New York State Attorney
General ("NY AG") and others were a party. Royal Blue was not a party to the Consent
Judgment and does not have the right to enforce it.
Third, as shown by the Consent Judgment, Royal Blue's claim against Ocwen is not
timely. The Consent Judgment had a three year sunset period that expired over two years ago.
See Point III, infra.
Finally, as discussed in Point IV, infra, even if Royal Blue's claim against Ocwen was
timely, it should be dismissed because it should be governed by a heightened pleading standard.
The claim is based on alleged fraudulent statements and misrepresentations but does not contain
the requisite particularity for that cause of action.
SUMMARY OF THE THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFF'S ALLEGATIONS
Royal Blue alleges that it owns a commercial condominium unit "located at 162-174
Street"
Christopher Street, a/k/a 130-132 Barrow in Manhattan "contain[ing] 12 separate
apartments."
(Third-Party Complaint ("TPC") ¶ 5). Royal Blue acknowledges that, in 2006, it
Inc."
"secured a mortgage from American Home Mortgage Servicing, and that the instant
foreclosure action is based on an alleged payment default on that mortgage. ( Id.¶¶ 6-7).
Much of the Third-Party Complaint is devoted to Royal Blue's contention that the
unit"
mortgaged premises "is not a separate and distinct condominium but one of twelve
unit"
"apartments comprising the commercial condominium and, therefore, the mortgage liens
sought to be foreclosed are void. ( Id. ¶¶ 9 & 11). Royal Blue admits in the Third-Party
Complaint that it raised this same issue as a defense in the foreclosure action brought by
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Plaintiff. (Id. 10). while pertinent to Royal Blue's claims against co-
¶ However, seemingly
defendant, NY AG, these allegations do not form the basis for Royal Blue's claim against
Ocwen.
Against Ocwen, Royal Blue also seeks to have the mortgages declared void based on
Ocwen's alleged violation of a consent judgment "filed on or about February 26, 2014 in the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, . ..(the Consent Judgment') because
belief"
"upon information and it "provided affidavits, sworn statements and Declarations that
contain information that is false or unsubstantiated or that is materially inaccurate in order to
sale." 40).3
obtain a judgment of foreclosure and (Id. ¶¶ 36-37 &
Royal Blue does not identify any specific affidavits or declarations, let alone any specific
statements or speakers, or explain how they were purportedly false. Royal Blue's only other
factual allegations in its cause of action against Ocwen are that Royal Blue's answer to the
complaint asserted that Plaintiff's complaint "fails to allege the date itobtained ownership of the
mortgages"
notes and being foreclosed upon and that Plaintiff has failed to "allege the facts
necessary to prove its claim that there were valid assignments of the notes and mortgages and
unbroken]."
that [the mortgage chain was (Id. ¶¶ 34 & 36).
While Royal Blue does not attach it,the referenced Consent Judgment was entered to
settle a case captioned Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. et. al.v. Ocwen Financial
Corporation and Ocwen Loan Servicing. LLC. As alleged in the Third-Party Complaint,
that case was under Index Number 13-cv-2025 (RMC). A copy of the Consent Judgment,
with all exhibits other than D, is attached to the accompanying Affirmation of Suzanne
Berger, sworn to August 29, 2019, as Exhibit 4 ("Berger Aff."). Exhibit D is attached as
Exhibit 5 to the Berger Aff. As stated in the Consent Judgment, the "intention of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the [participating] States in effecting [the]
settlement [was] to remediate harms allegedly resulting from the alleged unlawful
Defendant."
conduct of the See Berger Aff., Ex. 4, Whereas Clauses at p.8. However, as
also set forth in the Consent Judgment, "Defendant, by entering into this Consent
Complaint"
Judgment, [did] not admit the allegations of the beyond facts necessary to
establish jurisdiction. Id.
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ARGUMENT
POINT I
ROYAL BLUE'S CLAIM IS PRECLUDED BY THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE
Royal Blue's Complaint against Ocwen should be dismissed pursuant to CPLR
§§ 3211(a)(5) and (a)(7) because itis barred by the law of the case doctrine.
The only factual allegations made by Royal Blue (beyond the common allegation that the
mortgaged premises are not an individual unit) in support of the cause of action against Ocwen,
which asserts that Ocwen violated the Consent Judgment, are that Plaintiff s complaint does not
mortgages"
allege "the date itobtained ownership of the notes and being foreclosed upon and
that Plaintiff has failed to "allege the facts necessary to prove its claim that there were valid
unbroken]."
assignments of the notes and mortgages and that [the mortgage chain was (TPC
¶¶ 33 -35). These questions have already been decided.
Royal Blue has previously raised the sufficiency of Plaintiff s amended complaint with
respect to the standing allegations on two motions. The Court rejected Royal Blue's arguments
both times.
case"
The "law of the doctrine provides that "when an issue is once judicially
determined, that should be the end of the matter as far as Judges and courts of co-ordinate
concemed."
jurisdiction are Martin v. City of Cohoes, 37 N.Y.2d 162, 165 (1975) (citations
case'
omitted). "[T]he 'law of the operates to foreclose re-examination of [the] question absent a
law."
showing of subsequent evidence or change of Matter of Yeampierre v Gutman, 57 A.D.2d
898, 899 (4th Dep't 1977); see also, J-Mar Serv. Ctr., Inc. v Mahoney, Connor & Hussey, 45
A.D.3d 809 (2d Dep't 2007). "The doctrine of the law of the case seeks to prevent relitigation of
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proceeding."
issues of law that have already been determined at an earlier stage of the
Brownrigg v. New York City Hous. Auth, 29 A.D.3d 721, 722 (2d Dep't 2006).
Even in this procedural context, law of the case applies. Law of the case precludes
parties'
relitigation of issues previously decided. Law of the case applies to the privies and is
also applicable with respect to third party actions, See Briggs v. Chapman, 53 A.D.3d 900 (3d
Dep't 2008 ("Under the law of the case doctrine, parties or their privies are "preclude[d from]
relitigating an issue decided in an ongoing action where there previously was a full and fair
opportunity to address the issue") (citations omitted); see also Ahrorgulova v. Mann, 144 A.D.3d
953 (2d Dep't 2016) (determination in third party action was law of the case in the principle
action); NYP Holdings, Inc. v. McClier Corp., 83 A.D.3d 426 (1st Dep't 2011) (determination as
to one third party defendant was law of the case as to other third party defendant who were in
privity).
Here, Royal Blue fully already litigated the issue of the sufficiency of Plaintiff's
complaint with respect to the allegations. Its claim now against Ocwen - premised on
standing
Ocwen's role as Plaintiff's loan servicer - based on this same alleged is barred
insufficiency by
law of the case. Specifically, Royal Blue moved to dismiss the complaint in this action based on,
inter alia, this same argument. (ECF #13). For example, Royal Blue's motion to dismiss argued
that "plaintiff's Complaint fails to allege the date itallegedly obtained ownership of the note and
mortgages that were consolidated and extended in 2006 that are the documents underlying this
action."
(ECF #14 ¶ 15). It also argued that "no documentation has been submitted by plaintiff
and no facts have been alleged by plaintiff regarding the alleged assignment of the loans and
"
underlying loan documents . . . (Id. ¶ 16). That motion was denied by the Honorable Judith
McMahon entered on October 24, 2018. (ECF #63). Royal Blue then moved to reargue, again
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raising these same arguments, and that motion too was summarily denied by the Honorable
Arlene Bluth entered on July 26, 2019. (ECF #114 & 148).
Moreover, Ocwen is not the plaintiff in this action. Royal Blue fails to allege a basis for
which Ocwen, as Plaintiff's agent, should be held liable for itsprincipal's pleading. Performance
Comercial Importadora E Exportadora Ltda v. Sewa Int7. Fashions Pvt. Ltd., 79 A.D.3d 673
(1st Dep't 2010) ("An agent for a disclosed principal will not be personally bound unless there is
clear and explicit evidence of the agent's intention to substitute or superadd his or her personal
liability for, or to, that of the principal"); News Am. Mltg. Inc. v. LePage Bakeries. Inc., 16
A.D.3d 146 (1st Dep't 2005) (same); Jones v. Archibald, 45 A.D.2d 532, 534 (4th Dep't 1974)
(same).
Royal Blue now seeks a third bite of the apple, this time couched as a claim against
Ocwen. The alleged of the has been decided - and found to lack
insufficiency pleading already
merit - the Court and cannot be relitigated under the guise of a it is
by third-party pleading;
barred by the law of the case doctrine. Accordingly, Royal Blue's Third-Party Complaint against
Ocwen should be dismissed.
POINT II
THE COMPLAINT AGAINST OCWEN SHOULD BE DISMISSED BECAUSE ROYAL
BLUE LACKS STANDING TO ENFORCE THE CONSENT JUDGMENT
The Third Party Complaint against Ocwen should also be dismissed pursuant to CPLR
§ 321 l(a)(1), (a)(5) and (a)(7) for the independent reason that Royal Blue's sole claim against
Ocwen is based on Ocwen's alleged non-compliance with the Consent Judgment. The plain
language of the Consent Judgment, and case law, shows that Royal Blue has no right to enforce
the Consent Judgment.
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A motion to dismiss pursuant to CPLR §3211 (a)(1), on the ground that the action is
barred by documentary evidence. may be granted "where the documentary evidence utterly
law."
refutes plaintiffs factual allegations, conclusively establishing a defense as a matter of FG
Harriman Commons. LLC. et al. v. FBG Owners. LLC. et al.,75 A.D.3d 527. 527-528 (2d Dep·t
2010) (citations omitted) (affirming a motion to dismiss when the letteragreement conclusively
established, as a matter of law, that defendant did not breach the terms of the letter agreement).
"It is well settled that bare legal conclusions and factual claims, which are either inherently
incredible or flatly contradicted by documentary evidence, as in the case at bar. are not presumed
insufficiency."
to be true on a motion to dismiss for legal O'Donnell, Fox & Gartner v. R-2000
Corp., 198 A.D.2d 154. 154 (1st Dep't 1993) (citations omitted). The court is not required to
accept factual allegations that are contradicted by documentary evidence or legal conclusions
that are unsupported in the face of undisputed facts. Zanett Lombardier, Ltd. v. Maslow, 29
A.D.3d 495, 496 (1st Dep't 2006).
Similarly, on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action under CPLR
§ 3211(a)(7), while "the facts pleaded are presumed to be true and are accorded every favorable
inference . . . factual claims [which are] inherently incredible or flatly contradicted by
consideration."
documentary evidence are not entitled to such Caniglia v. Chicago Tribune-New
York News Syndicate, Inc.. 204 A.D.2d 233, 233-34 (1994) (citations omitted).
Here, Royal Blue alleges that Ocwen has violated the Consent Judgment because "upon
information and belief, [Ocwen] has provided affidavits, sworn statements and Declarations that
contain information that is false or unsubstantiated or that is materially inaccurate in order to
action."
attempt to obtain a judgment of foreclosure in this (TPC at ¶ 40). The Consent Judgment
was entered into between Ocwen on the one hand. and the Consumer Financial Protection
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Bureau ("CFPB") and 49 states and the District of Columbia on the other hand. A copy of that
5.4
Judgment is attached to the accompanying Affirmation of Suzanne Berger as Exhibits 4 &
Royal Blue - which is and does not claim to a to the Consent Judgment - does not
not, be, party
have standing to bring a claim to enforce it.
State"
Under the Consent Judgment, a "Plaintiff can seek to enforce the Judgment in state
court. (Berger Aff., Ex. 4 (Consent Judgment) at ¶ 13, p.11). Pursuant to the "Enforcement
Terms,"
set forth in Exhibit D to the Consent Judgment, a Monitoring Committee and Monitor
are to monitor Ocwen's compliance with the Consent Judgment. (Berger Aff., Ex. 5 (Ex. D) ¶¶ B
& C at pp. 2-9). The Enforcement Terms set forth how disputes among Ocwen, the Monitor and
Monitoring Committee are to be resolved and further provide that "[a]n enforcement action ...
Committee."
may be brought by any Party to this Consent Judgment or the Monitoring (Id., Ex.
D ¶ G & I(1) & (2) at pp.14-15). However, it nowhere grants such a right to third parties.
"consumers"
Instead, redress is limited to "existing consumer complaint resolution processes".
i.e. not claims for enforcement of the Consent Judgment, including that they can make
complaints to the Attorney General or the CFPB in the normal course. (1d.,Ex. D ¶ H at p.14).
"consumer"
The Third-Party Plaintiff here is not even a referenced by the resolution
process in the Consent Judgment. Consumers are natural persons. See Cruz v. NYNEX Info.
"consumer"
Res., 263 A.D.2d 285