$25,000,000.00
September 26, 2008
September 26,
2008
FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, PREMIER EXHIBITIONS, INC. (the
“Borrower”), a Florida corporation, hereby promises to
pay to the order of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (the “Bank”),
whose address is 9000 Southside Blvd., Building 100, Jacksonville,
Florida 32256, the principal sum of Twenty Five Million and 00/100
Dollars ($25,000,000.00), or so much of the principal hereof as may
be outstanding from time to time, together with interest on the
outstanding principal balance hereof at the rate provided herein.
This Note shall be governed by the following provisions:
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Advances . The Borrower and the Bank have executed a Loan
Agreement (as amended or restated from time to time, the
“Loan Agreement”) dated as of October 4, 2007. The
loan evidenced by this Note is a revolving loan, and the Borrower
may borrow, repay and reborrow principal amounts during the
Revolving Period (as defined in the Loan Agreement) subject to the
terms contained herein and in the Loan Agreement. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the outstanding principal balance hereof shall not
exceed the Maximum Credit Amount (as defined in the Loan Agreement)
then in effect (or such lesser amount as may be set forth in the
Loan Agreement). This Note is subject to the terms and conditions
of the Loan Agreement; provided, however, the Loan Agreement is
expressly NOT incorporated herein pursuant to
Section 201.08(6), Florida Statutes and
Rules 12B-4.052(6)(b) and (12)(h), Florida Administrative
Code. This Note is the Note described in the Loan
Agreement.
(a)
The Principal Debt from day to day outstanding which is not past
due shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the following
(computed as provided herein) as applicable: (i) on Base Rate
Principal, on any day, the Base Rate; and (ii) on LIBOR Rate
Principal, for the applicable Interest Period, the applicable LIBOR
Rate.
(b)
Subject to the conditions and limitations in this Note, the
Borrower may by written notice to the Bank in the form specified by
the Bank (a “Rate Election Notice”): (i) elect,
for a new advance of funds, that such Principal Debt will be Base
Rate Principal, LIBOR Rate Principal or a combination thereof;
(ii) elect to convert, on a Business Day, all or part of Base
Rate Principal into LIBOR Rate Principal; (iii) elect to
convert, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto,
all or part of any LIBOR Rate Principal into Base Rate Principal;
or (iv) elect to continue, commencing on the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, any LIBOR Rate Principal. If,
for any reason, an effective election is not made in accordance
with the terms and conditions of this Note for any principal
advance or for any LIBOR Rate Principal for which the corresponding
Interest Period is expiring or to convert Base Rate Principal to
LIBOR Rate Principal, then the sums in question will be Base Rate
Principal until an effective LIBOR Rate Election is thereafter made
for such sums.
(c)
Each Rate Election Notice must be received by the Bank not later
than 10:00 a.m. local time in the city in which this Note is
payable (or such other city as the Bank may designate) on the
applicable date as follows: (i) with respect to an advance of
or conversion to Base Rate Principal, one (1) Business Day
prior to the proposed date of advance or conversion; and
(ii) with respect to an advance of, conversion to or
continuation of LIBOR Rate Principal, three (3) Business Days
prior to the proposed date of advance, conversion or continuation.
Unless otherwise specified herein, no conversion from LIBOR Rate
Principal may be made other than at the end of the corresponding
Interest Period. Each Rate Election Notice shall stipulate:
(i) the amount of the advance or of the Principal Debt to be
converted or continued; (ii) the nature of the proposed
advance, conversion or continuation, which shall be either Base
Rate Principal, LIBOR Rate Principal or a combination thereof, and
in the case of a conversion or continuation, the nature of the
Principal Debt to be converted or continued; and (iii) in the
case of LIBOR Rate Principal, the proposed commencement
THIS NOTE RENEWS AND
MODIFIES THAT CERTAIN PROMISSORY NOTE DATED OCTOBER 4, 2007,
EXECUTED BY THE BORROWER IN FAVOR OF THE BANK IN A PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
OF $25,000,000.00.
date and duration of the
Interest Period (which duration shall be one month or three
months). All such notices shall be irrevocable once given, and
shall be deemed to have been given only when actually received by
the Bank in writing in form specified by the Bank.
(d)
In addition to any other conditions herein, a LIBOR Rate Election
shall not be permitted if:
(i)
A default or Event of Default is continuing under the Loan
Agreement; or
(ii)
After giving effect to the requested LIBOR Rate Election, the sum
of all LIBOR Rate Principal plus all Base Rate Principal would
exceed the Maximum Credit Amount (as defined in the Loan Agreement)
then in effect (or such lesser amount as may be set forth in the
Loan Agreement); or
(iii)
The requested LIBOR Rate Election would cause more than five
(5) LIBOR Rate Elections by the Borrower to be in effect at
any one time; or
(iv)
The amount of LIBOR Rate Principal requested in the LIBOR Rate
Election is other than $500,000 or a larger integral multiple of
$100,000; or
(v)
The requested interest period does not conform to the definition of
Interest Period herein; or
(vi)
Any of the circumstances referred to in subparagraph (g) below
shall apply with respect to the requested LIBOR Rate Election or
the requested LIBOR Rate Principal.
(e)
The Borrower hereby designates the Borrower’s chief financial
officer as being authorized to give Rate Election Notices on behalf
of the Borrower. The Bank shall be entitled to rely on written or
oral directions from such person until this authorization is
revoked by the Borrower in writing.
(f)
All interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of
360 days and paid for the actual number of days elapsed. The
Bank shall determine each interest rate applicable to the Principal
Debt in accordance with this Note and its determination thereof
shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. The books and
records of the Bank shall be prima facie evidence of all sums owing
to the Bank from time to time under this Note, but the failure to
record any such information shall not limit or affect the
obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.
(g)
If, with respect to any LIBOR Rate Election or any LIBOR Rate
Principal outstanding hereunder, the Bank determines that no
adequate basis exists for determining the LIBOR Rate, that the
LIBOR Rate will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the
Bank of funding or maintaining the applicable LIBOR Rate Principal
for such Interest Period, or that any applicable law or any request
or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any
tribunal or compliance therewith by the Bank prohibits or restricts
or makes impossible the making or maintaining of such LIBOR Rate
Election or LIBOR Rate Principal or the charging of interest on
such LIBOR Rate Principal, and the Bank so notifies the Borrower,
then until the Bank notifies the Borrower that the circumstances
giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, (a) the
obligation of the Bank to permit such LIBOR Rate Election shall be
suspended, and (b) all existing affected LIBOR Rate Principal
shall automatically become Base Rate Principal, either (i) on
the last day of the corresponding Interest Period (if the Bank
determines that it may lawfully continue to fund and maintain the
affected LIBOR Rate Principal to such day); or
(ii) immediately (if the Bank determines that it may not
lawfully continue to fund and maintain the affected LIBOR Rate
Principal to such day).
(h)
Any principal of, and to the extent permitted by applicable law,
any interest on, this Note and any other sum payable hereunder
which is not paid when due shall bear interest from the date due
and payable until paid, payable on demand, at the Past Due Rate as
hereinafter defined. If
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on the due date the entire
Principal Debt is bearing interest at a single interest rate, the
“Past Due Rate” shall be equal to four percent (4%)
plus the higher of (a) the Base Rate, or (b) the LIBOR
Rate. If on the due date different portions of the Principal Debt
are bearing interest at different rates as herein provided, the
Past Due Rate shall be calculated separately with respect to each
portion of the Principal Debt. For each portion of the Principal
Debt, the “Past Due Rate” shall equal the existing Base
Rate or LIBOR Rate then being applied, plus four percent (4%) per
annum.
(i)
In addition to other terms defined herein, as used herein the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless the
context otherwise requires:
“Base Rate” means, on any day, a simple rate per
annum equal to the greater of the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds
Rate for that day. Without notice to the Borrower or anyone else,
the Base Rate shall automatically fluctuate upward and downward as
and in the amount by which the Prime Rate or he Federal Funds Rate,
as applicable, fluctuates.
“Base Rate Principal” means, at any time, the
Principal Debt minus the portion, if any, of such Principal Debt
which is LIBOR Rate Principal.
“Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday
or a Sunday on which the Bank is open for the conduct of
substantially all of its banking business at its office in the city
in which this Note is payable, except that in the case of LIBOR
Rate Principal such day must also be a day on which commercial
banks are open for international business (including dealings in
U.S. Dollar deposits in London, England).
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the
rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers on such day, as
published by the Federal Reserve Bank on the Business Day next
succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is
not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be
such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day
as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and
(b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding
Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the
average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of
1/100 of 1%) charged to the Bank on such day on such transactions
as determined by the Bank.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any
LIBOR Rate Principal, the period commencing on the date such LIBOR
Rate Principal is disbursed or on the date on which the Principal
Debt or any portion thereof is converted into or continued as such
LIBOR Rate Principal, and ending on the date one (1) or three
(3) months thereafter, as elected by the Borrower in the
applicable Rate Election Notice; provided that:
(i)
Each Interest Period must commence on a Business Day;
(ii)
In the case of the continuation of LIBOR Rate Principal, the
Interest Period applicable after the continuation of such LIBOR
Rate Principal shall commence on the last day of the preceding
Interest Period;
(iii)
If any Interest Period applicable to LIBOR Rate Principal would
otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest
Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless
the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period
into another calendar month, in which event such Interest Period
shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(iv)
Any Interest Period applicable to LIBOR Rate Principal that begins
on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which
there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at
the end of such Interest
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Period) shall end on the
last Business Day of the last full calendar month at the end of
such Interest Period; and
(v)
No Interest Period shall extend beyond the maturity date of this
Note, and any Interest Period which begins before such maturity
date and would otherwise end after the maturity date shall instead
end on such maturity date.
“LIBOR Margin” is the percentage per annum set
forth below based on the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio (as
defined in the Loan Agreement).
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Leverage
Ratio
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Applicable Libor Margin
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3.0% per annum
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Equal to or
less than 1.0 to 1
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2.5% per annum
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The Libor Margin will be
established based upon the Borrower’s most recent quarterly
compliance certificate received by the Bank, as required in the
Loan Agreement. The Libor Margin will be in effect from the first
day of the calendar month following receipt of that compliance
certificate until the first day of the calendar month following
receipt of the next quarterly compliance certificate. Until the
Bank receives the first compliance certificate pursuant to the Loan
Agreement, the Libor Margin will be 2.5% per annum. Thereafter, if
any compliance certificate is not delivered when required under the
Loan Agreement, the Libor Margin from the date such certificate was
due until the date that the Bank receives the same will be 3.0% per
annum.
“LIBOR Rate” means, for any applicable Interest
Period, a per annum rate of interest equal to the Libor Margin
plus the British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (“BBA
LIBOR”), as published by Reuters (or other commercially
available source providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as selected by
the Bank from time to time) as determined for first day of each
applicable Interest Period at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time
two (2) London Banking Days prior to such day, for U.S. Dollar
deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period)
with a term equal to the term of the applicable Interest Period, as
adjusted from time to time in the Bank’s sole discretion for
reserve requirements, deposit insurance assessment rates and other
regulatory costs. If such rate is not available at such time for
any reason, then the rate for that Interest Period will be
determined by such alternate method as reasonably selected by the
Bank.
“LIBOR Rate Election” means an election by the
Borrower of an applicable LIBOR Rate in accordance with this
Note.
“LIBOR Rate Principal” means any portion of the
Principal Debt which bears interest at an applicable LIBOR Rate at
the time in question.
“London Banking Day” shall mean a day on which
banks in London are open for business and dealing in offshore
dollars.
“Note” means this promissory note, and any
renewals, extensions, amendments or supplements hereof.
“Prime Rate” means, on any day, the rate of
interest per annum then most recently established by the Bank as
its “prime rate.” Any such rate is a general reference
rate of interest, may not be related to any other rate, and may not
be the lowest or best rate actually charged by the Ba
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