Jasmine spy expects to be called with "Object(...)"

Prior to version 2, objects are equal if they have the same properties and values (see v1.3.1 code)

From version 2 onward, object constructors are also compared (see v2.0 code).

In your case: CustomCriteria and {} do not have the same constructor.

P.S.: The exception message also changed to contain the constructor name in it.