Triaxx Prime CDO

SDNY Grants Trustees’ Motion to Dismiss Triaxx CDOs’ RMBS Claims with Prejudice

 

On March 8, 2018, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a Memorandum and Order granting Defendants’ motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ Third Amended Complaint in its entirety in Triaxx Prime CDO 2006-1, Ltd., et al. v. The Bank of New York Mellon and U.S. Bank, N.A., and forbidding Plaintiffs from amending the Complaint any further. In dismissing Plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims for lack of standing, the Court found that Plaintiffs failed to remedy the deficiencies that previously resulted in dismissal of these same claims, covered here (“Triaxx I“), because Plaintiffs assigned away their right to sue under the contracts. Judge Buchwald also dismissed Plaintiffs’ negligence and breach of fiduciary duty claims because Plaintiffs failed to allege that Defendants owed them any duty of care or fiduciary duty. Additionally, the Court held that the fiduciary duty claims were an improper attempt to re-plead claims already dismissed as abandoned in Triaxx I, and in any event, the claims were barred by New York’s economic loss doctrine. Plaintiffs’ claim for equitable relief directing U.S. Bank to assign Plaintiffs the authority to sue was also dismissed as inappropriate and unsupported by law. [Memorandum and Order]