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SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR DID NOT STATE A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR FRAUD.

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Gische, recalling and vacating a prior decision and order dated May 31, 2016, determined plaintiff did not state a cause of action for fraud. Plaintiff, a sophisticated investor, procured a majority interest in DuCool, a manufacturer of heating and cooling equipment. The plaintiff, in a share purchase agreement, acknowledged the speculative nature of the investment. And plaintiff was given full access to DuCool’s records prior to the purchase:

Where a cause of action is based in fraud, “the complaint must allege misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact, falsity, scienter on the part of the wrongdoer, justifiable reliance and resulting injury” … . Furthermore, where the plaintiff is a sophisticated party, “if the facts represented are not matters peculiarly within the [defendant’s] knowledge, and the [plaintiff] has the means available to [it] of knowing, by the exercise of ordinary intelligence, the truth or the real quality of the subject of the representation, [the plaintiff] must make use of those means, or [it] will not be heard to complain that [it] was induced to enter into the transaction by misrepresentations” … . Circumstances constituting fraud must be set forth in a complaint in detail (CPLR 3016[b]). MP Cool Invs. Ltd. v Forkosh, 2016 NY Slip Op 05944, 1st Dept 9-1-16

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