DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2006 2006 v. NOLL III (2018)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2006-6, Mortgage Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-6, Appellant, v. William F. NOLL, III, Appellee.

Case No. 2D17-2848

Decided: October 31, 2018

A. Donald Scott, Jr. of Clarfield, Okon, Salomone & Pincus, Orlando, for Appellant. Louis D. D'Agostino and Maria Vigilante of Cheffy Passidomo, P.A., Naples, for Appellee.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (“Deutsche Bank”) appeals the final judgment awarding William F. Noll, III, the attorney's fees and costs that he incurred as a prevailing party after he obtained a final summary judgment dismissing Deutsche Bank's foreclosure case. Deutsche Bank successfully appealed that underlying judgment in case number 2D16-5635. As such, because Mr. Noll is no longer the prevailing party and no longer entitled to an award of fees and costs on that basis, we must reverse. See U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n for CSFB Heat 2006-7 v. Tranumn, 234 So.3d 871, 872 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018) (citing Marty v. Bainter, 727 So.2d 1124, 1125 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999) (“Once a final judgment is reversed and remanded by an appellate court, there can be no prevailing party for purposes of an award of prevailing party attorney's fees. Consequently, an award of attorney's fees and costs predicated on a reversed or vacated final judgment also must be reversed.”) ).

Reversed and remanded.

ATKINSON, Judge.

SILBERMAN and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur.

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