BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTION BY CALIFORNIA TRUSTEE OF MORTGAGE-BACKED-SECURITIES TRUSTS IS CONTROLLED BY NEW YORK’S BORROWING STATUTE AND MUST BE TIMELY UNDER BOTH CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK LAW, SUIT WAS UNTIMELY UNDER CALIFORNIA LAW (FIRST DEPT).
The First Department determined this breach of contract action stemming from a mortgage-backed-securities trust, brought by a California plaintiff (trustee) ,and concerning California lenders must be timely under both California and New York law. The action, although timely in New York, was not timely under California law, which has a four-year statute of limitations. The New York choice-of-law provisions in the agreements did not expressing incorporate the NY statute of limitations:
CPLR 202 requires that an action brought by a nonresident plaintiff, “based upon a cause of action accruing without the state,” be timely under the respective statutes of limitations of both New York and “the place without the state where the cause of action accrued.” In Global Fin. Corp. v Triarc Corp. (93 NY2d 525, 529-530 [1999]), the Court of Appeals set forth the general rule that, in cases where (as here) the alleged injury is purely economic, a cause of action is deemed, for purposes of CPLR 202, to have accrued in the jurisdiction of the plaintiff’s residence. …
it is undisputed that the domiciles of the trust beneficiaries, which are in various jurisdictions, do not provide a workable basis for determining the place of accrual. As to the New York choice-of-law clauses of the relevant agreements, because these provisions do not expressly incorporate the New York statute of limitations, they “cannot be read to encompass that limitation period” … . By contrast, the subject trust in each action comprises a pool of mortgage loans, originated by California lenders and encumbering California properties, either exclusively … or predominantly ,,,, and … administered in California by plaintiff, a California-based trustee …. Further, it is undisputed that the relevant pooling and servicing agreement (PSA) for each trust contemplates the payment of state taxes, if any, in California … . To the extent the physical location of the notes memorializing the securitized mortgage loans has relevance to the analysis, each trust’s PSA contemplates that the notes may be maintained in California, but neither contemplates maintaining the notes in New York … . Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v Barclays Bank PLC, 2017 NY Slip Op 08459, First Dept 12-5-17
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