Fidelity National Title Insurance v. Smith Buss & Jacobs, LLP

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mark Friedlander, J.), entered June 27, 2014, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant Smith Buss & Jacobs, LLP’s motion to dismiss the complaint as against it for failure to state a cause of action and defendant Blomberg’s motion to dismiss the breach of contract claim as a time-barred legal malpractice claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The complaint alleges that the sponsor of 16 apartment units in a condominium development, Empire Builders of New York Corp., and other parties defrauded the purchasers of the units by falsely…