Non existant app requests update in app store

I am currantly 10.9.2 on my macbook pro mid 2009. For a long time now, I have had an un-updateable app on the computer and the notification drives me nuts.
It is an agry birds app that I don't have and have never had.
It was purchased by another apple ID, yet it sits in the update section of the app store on my mac and I can't get rid of it!
All my other updates work and I don't want to get rid of the notifications for updates all together, just get rd of this stupid bug/issue or whatever it is. Please help.

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