McVetty “points to nothing that could discredit” TomTom’s use of the word, the court said. Without the context, his allegations of deception are only conclusory and don’t raise viable claims under New York’s consumer protection laws, Román said. Like the original complaint, McVetty’s amended version didn’t provide the “entire context” of the label on which he relied when purchasing his device, the judge said July 15. The first iteration of his complaint was dismissed as deficient by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, but McVetty was allowed to replead. The company discontinued lifetime updates for some devices in 2018, he alleged. ![]() ![]() defeated a proposed class action alleging it deceptively promised “lifetime” map updates on some GPS devices, as a federal court said a New York man failed to detail how consumers would be deceived or show he was affected.įrancis McVetty alleged that TomTom’s marketing representations of lifetime map and traffic updates were illusory given undisclosed caveats that the “lifetime” wasn’t merely the lifetime of the device, but the amount of time TomTom chose to support it.
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