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Exhibit 2.2
ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Asset Purchase Agreement
( “Agreement” ) is entered into as of
October 25, 2007, by ESP Systems, LLC., a North Carolina
limited liability company ( “Buyer” ), NTN
Buzztime, Inc., a Delaware corporation (
“Parent”) , and NTN Software Solutions, Inc., a
Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (
“Seller”, and collectively with Parent,
“Sellers” ).
STATEMENT OF
PURPOSE
Buyer has agreed to purchase
from Seller, and Seller has agreed to sell to Buyer, the Purchased
Assets for the consideration and on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
“Acquisition
Proposal” is defined in Section 6.3.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a
specified Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly
controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the
specified Person. The term “control” means (a) the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to vote 10% or
more of the securities or other equity interests of a Person having
ordinary voting power, (b) the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management policies of a Person, by contract or otherwise or
(c) being a director, officer, executor, trustee or fiduciary
(or their equivalents) of a Person or a Person that controls such
Person.
“Agreement” is defined in the opening
paragraph.
“Assumed
Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.2.
“Bill of
Sale” is defined in Section 7.1(a)(i).
“Business
Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or any
other day on which banks are required or authorized by law to be
closed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Buyer” is
defined in the opening paragraph.
“Closing”
is defined in Section 2.5.
“Closing
Date” is defined in Section 2.5.
“Confidential
Information” means information concerning the Purchased
Assets, including information relating to manufacturing and
production processes and techniques, processes and business
methods, technical information, pending projects and proposals,
research and development projects, inventions, discoveries, ideas,
technologies, trade secrets, know-how, formulae, technical data,
designs, patterns, marks, names, improvements, industrial designs,
mask works, compositions, works of authorship and other
Intellectual Property, devices, samples, plans, drawings and
specifications, photographs and digital images, computer software
and programming, all other confidential information and materials
relating to the Purchased Assets, and all notes, analyses,
compilations, studies, summaries, reports, manuals, documents and
other materials prepared by or for Seller containing or based in
whole or in part on any of the foregoing, whether in verbal,
written, graphic, electronic or any other form and whether or not
conceived, developed or prepared in whole or in part by
Seller.
“Consent”
means any consent, approval, authorization, permission or
waiver.
“Contract”
means any contract, obligation, understanding, commitment, privacy
policy, lease, license, purchase order, bid or other agreement,
whether written or oral or whether express or implied, together
with all amendments and other modifications thereto.
“Customer
Contracts” is defined in
Section 4.7(a)(i).
“Development
Tools” is defined in Section 4.4(a)(iii).
“Encumbrance” means any lien, mortgage,
pledge, encumbrance, charge, security interest, adverse or other
claim, community property interest, condition, equitable interest,
option, warrant, right of first refusal, easement, profit, license,
servitude, right of way, covenant, zoning or other restriction of
any kind or nature.
“Excluded
Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.3.
“Governmental
Body” means any federal, state, local, foreign or other
government or quasi-governmental authority or any department,
agency, subdivision, court or other tribunal of any of the
foregoing.
“Indemnified
Party” is defined in Section 10.4.
“Indemnifying
Party” is defined in Section 10.4.
“Intellectual
Property” means any or all of the following in any
jurisdiction: (a) all Proprietary Software; (b) all
patents and applications therefore and all reissues, divisions,
renewals, extensions, provisionals, continuations and
continuations-in-part thereof, reexaminations, and extensions
thereof, any counterparts claiming priority therefrom, utility
models, patents of importation/confirmation, certificates of
invention, certificates of registration and like statutory rights;
(c) all trademarks, service marks and trade names, together
with the goodwill of the business, and all applications and
registrations associated therewith; (d) all inventions
(whether patentable or not), invention disclosures, improvements,
trade secrets, proprietary information, processes, formulae,
technology, technical information, data, engineering procedures and
all documentation relating to any of the foregoing; (e) all
works of authorship (whether copyrightable or not), copyrights,
copyright registrations and pending copyright registration
applications and mask works, and all other rights corresponding
thereto; (f) all software; (g) all databases and data
collections and all rights therein; (h) any similar or
equivalent rights to any of the foregoing; (i) all moral and
similar rights of approval or attribution; and (j) claims,
causes of action or defenses relating to the enforcement of any of
the foregoing.
“Knowledge” means (a) actual knowledge
or (b) knowledge that would be expected to be obtained after a
reasonably comprehensive investigation concerning the matter at
issue. Sellers will be deemed to have Knowledge of a matter if any
Affiliate of such Person or any employee of such Person with
responsibility for such matter has, or at any time had, Knowledge
of such matter.
“Law”
means any federal, state, local, foreign or other law, statute,
ordinance, regulation, rule, regulatory or administrative guidance,
Order, constitution, treaty, principle of common law or other
restriction of any Governmental Body.
“Liability” or
“Liabilities” means any liability, obligation or
commitment of any kind or nature, whether known or unknown,
asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or
unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, or due or to become
due.
“Loss”
means any loss, claim, demand, Order, damage, penalty, fine, cost
(including any opportunity cost), settlement payment, Liability,
tax, Encumbrance, diminution of value, expense, fee, court costs or
attorneys’ fees and expenses.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means any material adverse effect on the
Purchased Assets.
“Modified Customer
Contract” is defined in
Section 4.7(a)(ii).
“Non-Transferred
Intellectual Property Contracts” are set forth on
Schedule 1.
“Order”
means any order, award, decision, injunction, judgment, ruling,
decree, charge, writ, subpoena or verdict entered, issued, made or
rendered by any Governmental Body or arbitrator.
“Organizational
Documents” means (a) the certificate or articles of
incorporation and the bylaws, (b) any documents comparable to
those described in clause (a) as may be applicable pursuant to
any Law and (c) any amendment or modification to any of the
foregoing.
“Parent”
is defined in opening paragraph.
“Party”
means Buyer, Seller and Parent.
“Person”
means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, company, sole proprietorship, joint venture, trust,
estate, association, organization, labor union, Governmental Body
or other entity.
“Proceeding” means any proceeding, charge,
complaint, claim, demand, notice, action, suit, litigation,
hearing, audit, investigation, arbitration or mediation (in each
case, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or
informal) commenced, conducted, heard or pending by or before any
Governmental Body, arbitrator or mediator.
“Proprietary
Information Agreements” means any agreement with any
current or former employee, consultant, or contractor regarding the
appropriation or the non-disclosure of any Seller Intellectual
Property or otherwise relating to Seller Intellectual
Property.
“Proprietary
Software” means all data files, source and object codes,
user interfaces, manuals, programming notes and instructions,
databases and other specifications and documentation used in
connection with the ProHost Seating and ProHost Reservation
software products and all customized versions and upgrades and
modifications thereof and as set forth on Schedule 1
.
“Purchase
Price” is defined in Section 2.4.
“Purchased
Assets” means all Seller Intellectual Property, Seller
Hardware and all Seller’s rights under Proprietary
Information Agreements to the extent such rights relate to the
ProHost Seating or ProHost Reservation products, but except as
qualified by the accompanying Schedules which are incorporated
herein.
“Representative” means, with respect to a
particular Person, any director, officer, employee, agent,
consultant, advisor or other representative of such Person,
including legal counsel, accountants and financial
advisors.
“Seller”
is defined in the opening paragraph.
“Seller
Contracts” is defined in Section 4.7(a).
“Seller
Hardware” means all hardware (including computers,
network hardware, POS terminals, paging system transmitters, guest
pagers and other Seller hardware) used by Seller in connection with
the development (including testing) of the ProHost Seating or
ProHost Reservation products and as set forth on Schedule 1
.
“Seller Intellectual
Property” means all Intellectual Property relating to the
ProHost Seating or ProHost Reservation products and as set forth on
Schedule 1 , but except as qualified by the schedules to
this Agreement, which are expressly incorporated herein.
“Third-Party
Claim” is defined in Section 10.4.
“Transactions” means the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
“Transaction
Documents” means this Agreement, the Bill of Sale and all
other written agreements, documents and certificates contemplated
by any of the foregoing documents.
“Transferred
Intellectual Property Contracts” are set forth on
Schedule 1.
ARTICLE II
SALE AND PURCHASE OF
ASSETS
2.1 Sale and Purchase of
Assets . Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
Seller will sell, assign, transfer and convey to Buyer, and Buyer
will purchase, acquire and accept from Seller, free and clear of
all Encumbrances, all of Seller’s rights, title and interest
in the Purchased Assets.
2.2 Assumed
Liabilities . Buyer will assume and agree to pay, perform and
discharge only (a) Liabilities to be performed after the Closing
Date under any Transferred Intellectual Property Contract and (b)
Liabilities arising after the Closing through Buyer’s use and
operation of the Purchased Assets; provided , however
, that such Liabilities will only be assumed to the extent that all
benefits under such Purchased Assets are transferred to Buyer
pursuant to this Agreement and the existence of such Liabilities
does not constitute a breach of the representations and warranties
of Seller set forth in this Agreement or in such Purchased Assets
(collectively, the “Assumed Liabilities”
).
2.3 Excluded
Liabilities . The Excluded Liabilities will remain the sole
responsibility of and will be retained, paid, performed and
discharged as and when due solely by Seller. “Excluded
Liabilities” means every Liability of Seller, other than
the Assumed Liabilities, including:
(a) All Liabilities of Seller
under any Transaction Document;
(b) All Liabilities under
Contracts other than the Transferred Intellectual Property
Contracts;
(c) All Liabilities arising
prior to the Closing through Seller’s use and operation the
Purchased Assets; and
(d) All other Liabilities of
Seller.
2.4 Purchase Price .
The purchase price for the Purchased Assets (the “Purchase
Price” ) will be $215,000.00 in cash.
2.5 Closing . The
closing of the Transactions to be performed on the Closing Date
(the “Closing” ) will take place at the offices
of Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P. in
Charlotte, North Carolina, commencing at 6:00 p.m. local time on
the later of (a) October 25, 2007, or (b) the second
Business Day following the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions
to the obligations of the Parties to consummate the Transactions to
be performed on the Closing Date (other than conditions with
respect to actions the Parties will take at the Closing) or such
other date as Buyer and Seller may mutually determine (the
“Closing Date” ). Subject to the consummation of
the Closing on the Closing Date, the sale, assignment, transfer and
conveyance to Buyer of the Purchased Assets will be deemed
effective as of 11:59 p.m. local time on the Closing
Date.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES REGARDING PARENT
Parent represents and
warrants as follows:
3.1 Organization and
Authority. Parent is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Parent has full power, authority and legal capacity to
execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which it is a
party and to perform its obligations thereunder. The execution and
delivery by Parent of each Transaction Document to which it is a
party and the performance by Parent of the Transactions has been
duly approved by its board of directors, and no other action on the
part of Parent is necessary to authorize the execution and delivery
by Parent of this Agreement and each such other Transaction
Document or the consummation of the Transactions. This Agreement
and each Transaction Document to which Parent is a party
constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of such party,
enforceable against such party in accordance with the terms of such
Transaction Document.
3.2 Share Ownership .
Parent owns of record and beneficially all of the outstanding stock
of Seller.
3.2 No Conflicts.
Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the
performance of the Transactions will, directly or indirectly, with
or without notice or lapse of time: (a) violate any Law to
which Parent is subject; (b) violate any Organizational
Document of Parent; or (c) violate, conflict with, result in a
breach of, constitute a default under, result in the acceleration
of or give any Person the right to accelerate the maturity or
performance of, or to cancel, terminate, modify or exercise any
remedy under, any Contract to which Parent is a party or by which
Parent is bound or the performance of which is guaranteed by
Parent. Parent is not required to notify, make any filing with, or
obtain any Consent of any Person in order to perform the
Transactions.
3.4 Litigation . There
is no Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened
or anticipated against Parent relating to or affecting the
Transactions.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES REGARDING SELLER
Sellers, jointly and
severally, represent and warrant as follows:
4.1 Organization and
Authority . Seller is duly organized, validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Seller has
full power, authority and legal capacity to execute and deliver the
Transaction Documents to which Seller is a party and to perform
Seller’s
obligations thereunder. The execution
and delivery by Seller of each Transaction Document to which it is
a party and the performance by Seller of the Transactions have been
duly approved, if required, by the board of directors or comparable
governing body of Seller and, if required, by the equity holders of
Seller. This Agreement constitutes the valid and legally binding
obligation of Seller, enforceable against Seller in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement. Upon the execution and delivery by
Seller of each Transaction Document to which Seller is a party,
such Transaction Document will constitute the valid and legally
binding obligation of Seller, enforceable against Seller in
accordance with the terms of such Transaction Document.
4.2 No Conflicts .
Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the
performance of the Transactions will, directly or indirectly, with
or without notice or lapse of time: (a) violate any Law to which
Seller is subject; (b) violate any Organizational Document of
Seller; or (c) violate, conflict with, result in a breach of,
constitute a default under, result in the acceleration of or give
any Person the right to accelerate the maturity or performance of,
or to cancel, terminate, modify or exercise any remedy under, any
Contract to which Seller is a party or by which Seller is bound
(including Seller Contracts) or the performance of which is
guaranteed by Seller; (d) cause Buyer to have any Liability
for any tax; or (e) result in the imposition of any
Encumbrance upon any Purchased Asset. Seller is not required to
notify, make any filing with, or obtain any Consent of any Person
in order to perform the Transactions.
4.3 Litigation .
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.3 , there is no Proceeding
pending or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened or anticipated
against Sellers relating to or affecting (a) the Purchased
Assets or (b) the Transactions.
4.4 Intellectual
Property .
(a) Schedule 1 sets
forth a complete and accurate list of the Seller Intellectual
Property including:
(i) All Intellectual Property
used, held for use or tangibly proposed to be used as of the
Closing by Seller in the current business operations of ProHost
Seating or ProHost Reservation (including Proprietary Software and
all related documentation);
(ii) All written licenses,
sublicenses and other Contracts under which Seller has rights in
any Intellectual Property used with the ProHost Seating or ProHost
Reservation products or systems ( “Transferred
Intellectual Property Contracts” and
“Non-Transferred Intellectual Property
Contracts”) ;
(iii) All existing
development environments (including any third party software tools
and hardware currently used to make changes to the source code of
the Proprietary Software and generate executables for field
deployment), existing test environments (including any third party
software tools, simulators, emulators and regression test
packages), document management tools and code management tools(
“Development Tools” );
(iv) Each registered
trademark and service mark and each trade name or unregistered
trademark or service mark used in connection with the ProHost
Seating or ProHost Reservation products and systems; and
(v) All applications and
registrations for Intellectual Property that relate to the ProHost
Seating or ProHost Reservation products and systems,
worldwide.
The Seller Intellectual Property set
forth on Schedule 1 includes all of the Intellectual Property
assets necessary to operate the ProHost Seating or ProHost
Reservation business as it is presently conducted. Buyer
acknowledges this representation will be qualified by the
exceptions contained in each of the schedules related to this
Section 4.4.
(b) Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.4(b) , Seller owns and possesses full, legally
enforceable rights to use, sell, transfer and assign all Seller
Intellectual Property, in each case, free and clear of conditions,
adverse claims or other restrictions or any requirement of any
past, present or future royalty payments.
(c) Seller has a practice to
secure valid written assignments from all consultants and employees
who contribute or have contributed to the creation or development
of Seller Intellectual Property (including all Proprietary
Software) of the rights to such contributions that Seller does not
already own by operation of law.
(d) Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.4(d) , Seller has taken all reasonable and
appropriate steps to protect and preserve the confidentiality of
all of the trade secrets that comprise any part of Seller
Intellectual Property, and there are no unauthorized uses,
disclosures or infringements of any such trade secrets; any use by,
and disclosure to, with Seller’s Knowledge, any Person of
trade secrets that comprise any part of Seller Intellectual
Property has been pursuant to the terms of a written agreement with
such Person; any use by Seller, with Seller’s Knowledge, of
trade secrets owned by another Person has been pursuant to the
terms of a written agreement with such Person or is otherwise
lawful; and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no trade secrets of Seller
have been used, divulged or appropriated for the benefit of any
Person other than Seller or otherwise to the detriment of
Seller.
(e) There is not pending in
any forum (or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened) any action,
suit or proceeding: (i) challenging the validity,
enforceability, ownership, scope or effectiveness of, or contesting
Seller’s rights with respect to, any Seller Intellectual
Property, (ii) challenging Seller’s rights to use any
Intellectual Property or the enforceability of any agreements or
arrangements relating thereto, or (iii) asserting that
Seller’s use or exploitation of any Intellectual Property
infringes upon, misappropriates, violates or conflicts in any way
with the rights (including, without limitation, rights in
Intellectual Property, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and
rights in personal and other data) of any Person; and, in each
case, there are not grounds for any such assertion or
claim.
(f) Except as disclosed in
Schedule 4.4(f) , Seller is not and has not been a party to
any suit, action or proceeding which involves a claim of
infringement, breach or misappropriation of any Intellectual
Property of any Person and has not brought any action, suit or
proceeding against any Person for infringement or misappropriation
of, or breach of any license or agreement involving, any Seller
Intellectual Property.
(g) Neither Seller
Intellectual Property nor the use or other exploitation thereof by
Seller (or any consultant, contractor or employee of Seller who
contributes to or has contributed to or participated in the
creation or development of Seller Intellectual Property) infringes
on, misappropriates, breaches or violates the rights in
Intellectual Property or any other rights of any Person.
(h) Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.4(h) , Seller has not given or received any
notice of default or any event which with the lapse of time would
constitute a default under any agreement relating to Seller
Intellectual Property; neither Seller nor, to the Knowledge of
Seller, any other party is currently in default with regard to any
agreement relating to Seller Intellectual Property, and there
exists no condition or event which, with the giving of notice or
the lapse of time or both, would constitute a default by Seller
under any agreement relating to Seller Intellectual Property, or
would give any Person any rights of termination, cancellation,
acceleration of any performance under any such
agreement.
(i) Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.4(i) , to Seller’s Knowledge, there are no
unauthorized uses, disclosures, infringements, or misappropriations
by any Person of any Seller Intellectual Property. Except as set
forth on Schedule 4.4(i) , Seller has not entered into
(i) any agreement to indemnify any other Person against any
charge of infringement, breach or misappropriation of any
Person’s rights in Intellectual Property or (ii) any
agreement granting any Person the right to bring infringement or
misappropriation actions with respect to, or otherwise to enforce
rights with respect to, any Seller Intellectual
Property.
(j) Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.4(j) , no Person other than Seller possesses any
current or contingent rights to, or otherwise uses, any computer
software source code that is part of Seller Intellectual Property
(including, without limitation, through any escrow
account).
(k) There are no material
errors in any documentation of such Proprietary Software related
to, associated with or used or produced in the development,
maintenance or marketing of such Proprietary Software. All
Proprietary Software contained within Seller Intellectual Property
performs in all material respects in accordance with the
specifications included therein or applicable thereto.
4.5 Title to and
Sufficiency of Purchased Assets . Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.5 , the Seller has good and marketable
title
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