A Raleigh tech company is suing for half a million dollars in a case that surrounds a statistics tracking app for golfers.
Dualboot is suing Mossa Holdings, claiming it’s owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for work it did on the app. It also accusing the Texas company of lying about the state of its finances to avoid paying invoices.
The federal lawsuit also names two of Mossa’s executives, Wayne Ludlum and Anna Perelman, as defendants.
Dualboot designs and develops apps. In the case of its agreement with Mossa, it was to design a golf-related application intended to track a player’s statistics, according to the lawsuit.
Its services come at a cost. According to the lawsuit, the estimate it delivered to Mossa had just the first phase of development costing up to $175,000.
Mossa, according to the suit, paid invoices through November 2022. Then payments started to come in late, or not at all, the lawsuit says.
Outstanding invoices added up to more than $503,000, according to the complaint.
According to Dualboot, Mossa agreed to a payment plan, but never delivered. The agreement was made both via email and during a telephone conference, according to the lawsuit. While Mossa made some payments, it still owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. So in May of 2023, Dualboot notified Mossa it would be stopping work on the project.
Dualboot claims Mossa responded with “fabricated documents and false statements … to substantiate Mossa’s alleged ability to pay.” The company claimed it was a bank issue that was being worked out and sent a document purporting to be proof of funds. The company later sent bank statements that the lawsuit claims were “forged and false,” all to keep the work going.
At one point, the company blamed First Republic, a bank that failed in 2023. Those statements were also false, according to Dualboot.
Despite being told wires were coming, Dualboot never received the $503,118, plus interest, it claims it’s owed.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Scott Tyler of Moore & Van Allen PLLC.
Defendants either did not respond to a request to comment or could not be reached. They did not yet have an attorney listed.
Mossa Holdings’ moniker, as well as the name Wayne Ludlum, are listed on a website for a company called Northway Golf. Inquiries to the contact information on the website were not immediately returned.