Exhibit 10.4
Customer No.
Loan No.
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RBC
Bank
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Commercial Promissory
Note
(SD-L&S)
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$3,000,000
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Atlanta, Georgia
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December 31, 2008
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MASTER NOTE
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned
(whether one or more, “Borrower”) promises to pay to
RBC BANK (USA) (“Bank”), or order, the sum of Three
Million Dollars ($3,000,000), 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 a floating
per annum rate equal to two and three quarters percent
(2.75%) plus the LIBOR Base Rate. The
“LIBOR Base Rate” is the London Interbank Offer Rate
for U.S. Dollars for a term of one month which appears on 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 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
three percent (3.0%) 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.
1.2.3.2. Calculation of
Interest . All interest payable under this Note shall be
calculated monthly and 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 as follows: interest shall be payable monthly, in
arrears, beginning January 1, 2009 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 as follows: principal shall be
payable in one single payment on December 31, 2010 (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
any prepayment premium.
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 . Borrower and Bank have entered into a loan and
security agreement dated of even date herewith (“Loan and
Security 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 Loan and
Security Agreement and all security documents and other agreements
referenced in the Loan and Security Agreement.
Section 3.2. Security
Documents . This Note is secured by (1) the Loan and
Security Agreement, (2) the security documents and other
supporting obligations identified in the Loan and Security
Agreement, (3) the security documents and other supporting
obligations which reference that they secure this Note or the Loan
and Security Agreement, (4) 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
(5) any security documents and other
supporting obligations which reference that they secure all
indebtedness from time to time owing 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 Not