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BUFFALO, N.Y., Apr 12 (UPI) -- A newborn causa claiming a large portion of Facebook belongs to an primeval advocator of the project should be heard in federal court, a New York state judge ruled.

The claim prefabricated by Apostle Ceglia, who Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg met finished Craigslist, should be held in federal suite because Zuckerberg, a native of New York, is now a resident of California, Judge Richard Arcara in Buffalo, N.Y., ruled, eWeek.com reported.

Facebook said it was entertained with the judgement and labeled Ceglia's refiled claims "a fraudulent causa brought by a scam artist, and we look forward to defending it in federal court." GALLERY: The questionable exchanges between Ceglia and Zuckerberg Ceglia's second filing is filled with newborn evidence, including dozens of e-mails and the contract he allegedly subscribed with Zuckerberg in 2003 that details stipendiary Zuckerberg to work on an Internet project he designed titled StreetFax and to money the primeval work on Facebook in exchange for 50 proportionality of the company, Business Insider reported.

Zuckerberg had responded to a Craigslist ad Ceglia had placed hunt someone to work on StreetFax.

If the claims are valid, the $1,000 commercialism allegedly prefabricated to Zuckerberg could be parlayed to a payoff worth billions. Zuckerberg is currently worth about $13 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The media has seized upon the e-mails and the contract, bill excerpts online.

The contract shows an commendation to deal Facebook equally, but also to pay Ceglia 1 proportionality deal of the consort for every period Facebook went beyond its original, agreed upon launch fellow of Jan. 1, 2004.

The Web place was launched Feb. 2, 2004. By that time, Zuckerberg, e-mails say, had already complained bitterly he would be forced to give away an enormous portion of the consort cod to delays in conception caused by his employed on StreetFax.

Allegedly, Ceglia then agreed to return to the 50-50 separate in the company.

The meet was refiled with a coercive accumulation firm, DLA Piper representing Ceglia.

Earlier this week, an appeals suite in San Francisco refused to center a case filed by altruist colleagues of Zuckerberg, twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who wished to revisit a deciding prefabricated on claims Zuckerberg had stolen their idea for Facebook.

The appellate suite ruled the brothers had already subscribed off on the settlement, which was worth $65 million.