Longtime Orlando luxury homes specialist Roger Soderstrom was unsuccessful at his third attempt to ward off a claim that he allegedly defrauded a real estate investor out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, court documents showed.

This week, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals judges Charles Wilson, Robin Rosenbaum and Susan Black determined that two previous courts were correct in ruling in favor of Joan Thompson and her Longwood-based firm J. Thompson Investments LLC against Soderstrom, court documents showed. Soderstrom had been fighting the charges, previously telling Orlando Business Journal that the charges were an opinion and not factual.

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