Exhibit 10.2
Customer No.
Loan No.
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RBC Centura
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Commercial Promissory
Note
(SD –
F&V)
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$3,000,000.00
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Greenville, South
Carolina
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March 14, 2005
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Master Note
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (whether one
or more, “Borrower”) promises to pay to RBC CENTURA
BANK (“Bank”), or order, the sum of Three Million and
No/100 Dollars ($3,000,000.00), or so much thereof as shall have
been disbursed from time to time and remains unpaid, together with
interest at the rate and payable in the manner hereinafter stated.
Principal and interest shall be payable at any banking office of
Bank in the city or town indicated above, or such other place as
the holder of this Note may designate.
Article I. Interest Rate.
Section 1.1. Rate of Accrual . Interest
will accrue on the unpaid principal balance at the rate set forth
in Section 1.2.1. until maturity of this Note, whether such
maturity occurs by acceleration or on the Maturity Date; and, at
Bank’s option, interest at the foregoing rate will accrue on
any unpaid interest before such maturity. Interest will accrue on
any unpaid balance owing under this Note, whether principal,
interest, fees, premiums, charges or costs and expenses, after
maturity at the rate set forth in Section 1.2.2. All accrual
rates of interest under this Note will be contract rates of
interest, whether a pre-default rate or a default rate, and
references to contract rates in any loan documents executed and
delivered by Borrower or others to Bank in connection with this
Note shall be to such contract rates.
Section 1.2. Interest Rates .
1.2.1. Pre-Default Rate . Subject to the
provisions of Section 1.2.2. below, interest payable on this
Note per annum will accrue at 2.75% plus the LIBOR
Base Rate. The “LIBOR Base Rate” is the London
Interbank Offer Rate for United States Dollars for a term of one
month which appears on Telerate Page 3750, Bloomberg Professional
Screen BBAM (or any generally recognized successor method or means
of publication) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) London
business days prior to the day on which the rate will become
effective. The rate for the first month or part thereof will
initially become effective on the date of the Note as shown on the
face hereof. Thereafter, the rate will change and a new rate will
become effective on the first calendar day of each succeeding
month. If for any reason the London Interbank Offer Rate is not
available, then the “LIBOR Base Rate” shall mean the
rate per annum which banks charge each other in a market comparable
to England’s Eurodollar market on short-term money in U.S.
Dollars for an amount substantially equivalent to the principal
amount due under this Note as determined at 11:00 A.M., London
time, two (2) London business days prior to the day on which the
rate will become effective, as determined in the Bank’s sole
discretion. Bank’s determination of such interest rate shall
be conclusive, absent manifest error.
1.2.2. Default Rate . Upon the nonpayment
of any payment of interest described herein, Bank, at its option
and without accelerating this Note, may accrue interest on such
unpaid interest at a rate per annum (“Default Rate”)
equal to the lesser of the maximum contract rate of interest that
may be charged to and collected from Borrower on the loan evidenced
by this Note under applicable law or five percent (5.0%) plus the
pre-default interest rate otherwise applicable hereunder, as set
forth in Section 1.2.1 .. After maturity of this Note,
whether by acceleration or otherwise, interest will accrue on the
unpaid principal of this Note, any accrued but unpaid interest and
all fees, premiums, charges and costs and expenses owing hereunder
at the Default Rate until this Note is paid in full, whether this
Note is paid in full pre-judgement or post-judgement.
1.2.3. Variable Rate; Calculation of
Interest .
1.2.3.1. Variable Rate . This is a
variable rate note. Any change in the rate of interest payable
under this Note will equal the change in the variable rate index to
which such rate is tied, but the rate at which interest accrues
under this Note shall never exceed the maximum contract rate which
may be charged to and collected from Borrower on the loan evidenced
by this Note under applicable law. Bank shall have no obligation to
notify Borrower of adjustments in the rate of interest payable
under this Note. Adjustments to the rate of interest will be
effective on the date of change in the variable rate
index.
1.2.3.2. Calculation of Interest . All
interest payable under this Note shall accrue daily on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed and a year of three hundred sixty
(360) days. In computing the number of days during which interest
accrues, the day on which funds are initially advanced shall be
included regardless of the time of day such advance is made, and
the day on which funds are repaid shall be included unless
repayment is credited prior to close of business. Payments in
federal funds, immediately available in the place designated for
payment, received by Bank prior to 2:00 p.m. local time at said
place of payment, shall be credited as if received prior to close
of business on the day the funds are immediately available; while
other payments, at the option of Bank, may not be credited until
such payments are immediately available to Bank, in federal funds,
in the place designated for payment, prior to 2:00 p.m. local time
at said place of payment on a day on which Bank is open for
business.
Article II. Payment Terms.
Section 2.1. Interest Payment Terms .
Payments under this Note include an interest component and a
principal component. The principal component is set forth in
Section 2.2 below. The interest component shall be paid
monthly, in arrears, beginning April 1, 2005, and continuing on the
same calendar day of each consecutive month thereafter until the
Maturity Date, when all accrued but unpaid interest is due and
payable in full.
Section 2.2. Principal Payment Terms;
Maturity Date . As stated in Section 2.1 above, payments
under this Note include an interest component and a principal
component. The interest component is set forth in Section
2.1 above. The principal component shall be paid in one single
payment on March 1, 2006 (herein referred to as the “Maturity
Date”).
Section 2.3. Prepayment . This Note may
be prepaid in whole or in part at any time without
penalty.
Section 2.4. Application of Payments .
All payments made on this Note shall be applied first to payment of
all late fees, charges, premiums and costs and expenses due but
unpaid under this Note, then to accrued but unpaid interest and
finally to principal, in the inverse order of the payment dates
therefor, unless Bank determines in its sole discretion to apply
payments in a different order or applicable law requires a
different application of payments. The partial prepayment of this
Note, if permitted, shall not result in a payment holiday or any
other deferral of any regularly scheduled payments under this Note,
all of which shall be made as and when the same are scheduled to be
paid.
Article III. Loan Agreement and
Security.
Section 3.1. Loan Agreement . The loan
evidenced by this Note was made pursuant to a commitment letter
(“Commitment Letter”) from Bank to Borrower dated
February 22, 2005. Borrower and Bank have entered into a loan
agreement of even date herewith (“Loan Agreement”).
Borrower shall perform and abide by, as and when so required, each
and all of the covenants, terms and conditions imposed upon or
applicable to Borrower in the Commitment Letter and all security
documents and other agreements referenced in the Commitment Letter,
as well as the Loan Agreement and all security documents and other
agreements referenced in the Loan Agreement.
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Section 3.2. Security Documents . This
Note is secured by (1) the security documents and other supporting
obligations identified in the Commitment Letter and by those
identified in the Loan Agreement, (2) the security documents and
other supporting obligations which reference that they secure this
Note, (3) any security documents and other supporting obligations
which reference that they secure all indebtedness or other
obligations owing from time to time by Borrower to Bank, and (4)
any security documents and other supporting obligations which
reference that they secure all indebtedness owing from time to time
from Borrower to Bank other than consumer credit as defined under
the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation Z (Truth-in-Lending)
(12 CFR 226 et seq.) (“security documents”).
Article IV. Default and Acceleration.
Section 4.1. Late Charges and Expenses .
Borrower agrees to pay, upon demand by Bank or if demand is not
sooner made, on maturity of this Note, whether such maturity occurs
by acceleration or on the Maturity Date, for each payment past due
for fifteen (15) or more calendar days, a late charge in an amount
equal to the lesser of (1) four percent (4%) of the amount of the
payment past due or (2) the maximum percentage of the payment past
due permitted by applicable law, or the maximum amount if not
expressed as a percentage. If this Note is not paid in full
whenever it becomes due and payable, Borrower agrees to pay all
costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees. The Borrower hereby stipulates that
reasonable attorneys’ fees shall be fifteen percent (15%) of
the outstanding balance (principal, interest, fees, premiums,
charges and costs and expenses) owing under this Note after default
and, if applicable law prohibits payment of attorneys’ fees
when collection is through an attorney who is a salaried employee
of Bank, referral to an attorney not a salaried employee of the
Bank.
Section 4.2. Default . Any one or more of
the following shall constitute an event of default (“Event of
Default”) under this Note: (1) the failure of Borrower to
make wh