In my case my problem was that I was using an older version of NetBeans. The Maven repository removed an http reference, but the embedded Maven in Netbeans had that http reference hard-coded. I was really confused at first because my pom.xml referenced the proper https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2.
Fixing it was pretty simple. I downloaded the latest zip archive of Maven from the following location and extracted it to my machine: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
Within Netbeans at Tools -> Options -> Java -> Maven on the "Execution" section I set "Maven Home" to the newly extracted zip file location.
Now I could build my project....