Cynthia Maurizio v. Olivia Goldsmith, AKA Justine Rendal, AKA Randi J. Goldfield

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• explaining that GBL § 349 was designed to augment the Attorney General’s power to curtail deceptive trade practices toward consumers, and was later expanded to allow for a private right of action
• requiring the same under Sections 349 and 350 of New York General Business Law
• “It is clear that the gravamen of the [Section 349] complaint must be consumer injury or harm to the public interest.”
• “Private contract disputes, unique to the parties . . . would not fall within the ambit” of Section 349.
• under N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §§ 349-50 (Count VI), a plaintiff must establish a deceptive act that is “likely to mislead a reasonable consumer acting reasonably under the circumstances”
• applying the same three elements

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