A quick search of the forum would have yielded your answer.
3 points applies only to a dribbler. If a player straddling the division line picks up his dribbler, he is a player in the backcourt.
If he subsequently picks up his BC foot, then he is a player in the FC (and the ball gains FC status).
If he then puts the foot back down in the BC, he has returned to the BC and thereby violated.
If that's what your partner called, then he is correct.
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