An Audi dealership that was one of many shops on the middle of a lawsuit filed by Volkswagen of America towards Napleton Automotive Group has been acquired by one other dealership group.

Burlington Automotive Group acquired Audi Wyoming Valley in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Might 17 from Wyoming Valley Motors.

Burlington Automotive, led by Randy Lebowitz, Jake Lebowitz and Wayne Hileman, now has 9 dealerships, based on DCG Acquisitions, a Dave Cantin Group firm. Dave Cantin and Brian Brown of DCG Acquisitions dealt with the transaction.

Napleton Automotive Group had been set to amass the Audi dealership on a number of events courting to at the very least 2016. The most recent deal for Napleton to amass the shop collapsed final yr.

Volkswagen of America final yr requested a federal court docket in Pennsylvania to implement a 2017 court docket order associated to that retailer, and a decide dominated August 2020 in Volkswagen’s favor, deeming buy agreements between Napleton and Wyoming Valley for its Audi and a Volkswagen retailer “null and void.”

Volkswagen sued the Napleton group late last year in federal court docket in New Jersey, looking for to dam Napleton from buying these Audi and Volkswagen shops from Wyoming Valley, in addition to Audi of Rochester Hills in suburban Detroit.

Volkswagen and Napleton, in court docket filings, each claimed the opposite social gathering violated a 2018 settlement settlement referring to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal.

The Audi of Rochester Hills retailer additionally concerned within the tangle additionally has since been offered to a different retailer. Rafih Auto Group on Might 10 acquired Audi of Rochester Hills as a part of its purchase of the four-store Eitel Dahm Motor Group.