Exhibit 10.5
FIRST AMENDMENT
TO SECURITY AGREEMENT
(Subsidiary)
This FIRST AMENDMENT
TO SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) is made as of
the 23 rd day of February, 2009
among:
(a) MEDIABISTRO.COM INC., a Delaware
corporation (“Pledgor”); and
(b) KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
administrative agent for the benefit of the Lenders, as hereinafter
defined (“Agent”).
WHEREAS, JUPITERMEDIA CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation, to be known as WebMediaBrands Inc.
(“Borrower”), entered into that certain Credit and
Security Agreement, dated as of July 12, 2007, with the
lenders named therein (the “Lenders”), Agent, and
Citizens Bank, N.A., as the syndication agent (as amended, the
“Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the
Credit Agreement, Pledgor and Agent entered into that certain
Security Agreement, dated as of July 30, 2007 (as the same may
from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified, the
“Security Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Borrower and KeyBank
National Association, in its own capacity and not as agent for the
Lenders (“KeyBank”), entered into that certain hedge
agreement, the terms and conditions of which are governed by that
certain 1992 ISDA Master Agreement between Borrower and KeyBank,
dated as of July 19, 2007 (the “Master
Agreement”), and evidenced by that certain Confirmation
between Borrower and KeyBank, dated as of July 19, 2007,
executed in accordance with the Master Agreement (collectively, the
“Swap Agreement”);
WHEREAS, on the date hereof,
Borrower is terminating the Commitment under the Credit Agreement,
pursuant to the terms of that certain Payoff Letter, dated as of
February 23, 2009, from Agent, and acknowledged and agreed to
by Borrower;
WHEREAS, notwithstanding the
termination of the Credit Agreement, the obligations under the Swap
Agreement (together with any other obligations owing to KeyBank
under the Master Agreement, collectively, the “Swap
Obligations”) that are currently secured pursuant to the
Credit Agreement (and certain other security documents executed in
connection therewith, including the Security Agreement) will be
permitted to remain outstanding after the termination of the Credit
Agreement;
WHEREAS, Pledgor and Agent desire to
amend the Security Agreement so that the Security Agreement only
continues to secure the Swap Obligations;
WHEREAS, each capitalized term used
herein and defined in the Security Agreement, but not otherwise
defined herein, shall have the meaning given such term in the
Security Agreement; and
WHEREAS, unless otherwise
specifically provided herein, the provisions of the Security
Agreement revised herein are amended effective as of the date of
this Amendment;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and of the mutual covenants herein and for other
valuable consideration, Pledgor and Agent agree as
follows:
1. Amendment to Introductory
Paragraph . The introductory paragraph of the Security
Agreement is hereby amended to delete therefrom the phrase
“as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement, as
hereinafter defined”, and to insert in place thereof the
phrase “as administrative agent for itself and any other
Persons that participate in the Swap Obligations”.
2. Amendment to Recitals .
Section 1 of the Security Agreement is hereby amended to
delete Section 1 therefrom and to insert in place thereof the
following:
1. Recitals .
JUPITERMEDIA CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation, to be known as WebMediaBrands, Inc.
(“Borrower”), has entered into that certain ISDA Master
Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2007, with KeyBank (as the
same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise
modified, the “Master Agreement”), as evidenced by that
certain Confirmation, dated as of July 19, 2007, executed in
accordance with the Master Agreement (the
“Confirmation”, and together with the Master Agreement,
collectively, the “Swap Agreement”).
Pledgor, a subsidiary of Borrower,
deems it to be in the direct pecuniary and business interests of
Pledgor that Borrower continue to obtain from the Lenders, as
hereinafter defined, the financial accommodations provided for in
the Swap Agreement.
Pledgor understands that the Lenders
are willing to continue to grant such financial accommodations to
Borrower only upon certain terms and conditions, one of which is
that Pledgor continue to grant to Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders, a security interest in and collateral assignment of the
Collateral, as hereinafter defined, and this Agreement is being
executed and delivered in consideration of the Lenders continuing
to grant the financial accommodations provided for under the Swap
Agreement and for other valuable consideration.
3. Amendment to the Introductory
Clause of Section 2 . Section 2 of the Security
Agreement is hereby amended to delete the introductory clause
therefrom and to insert in place thereof the following:
“Except as specifically
defined herein, terms that are defined in the U.C.C. are used
herein as so defined. As used in this Agreement, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:”
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4. Amendment to Definitions .
Section 2 of the Security Agreement is hereby amended to
delete the definitions of “Immaterial Deposit Account”,
“Obligations” and “Proceeds” therefrom, and
to insert in place thereof, respectively, the following:
“Immaterial Deposit
Account” means a Deposit Account maintained by Pledgor or
Borrower that at all times, has a balance of less than One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($100,000); provided that the Immaterial Deposit
Accounts of Pledgor and Borrower shall not, at any time, aggregate
in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000).
“Obligations” means,
collectively, (a) all present and future obligations and
liabilities of any kind incurred by Borrower pursuant to the Swap
Agreement, including all Transactions, as defined in the Swap
Agreement, entered into thereunder and all termination values,
expenses and damages payable in accordance with the terms thereof;
(b) interest from time to time accruing on any of the
foregoing, and all fees and other amounts payable by Borrower
pursuant to the Swap Agreement or any other Loan Document; and
(c) all Related Expenses.
“Proceeds” means
(a) proceeds as defined in the U.C.C., and any other proceeds,
and (b) whatever is received upon the sale, exchange,
collection or other disposition of Collateral or proceeds, whether
cash or non-cash. Cash proceeds include, without limitation,
moneys, checks and Deposit Accounts. Proceeds include, without
limitation, any Account arising when the right to payment is earned
under a contract right, any insurance payable by reason of loss or
damage to the Collateral, and any return or unearned premium upon
any cancellation of insurance. Except as expressly authorized in
this Agreement, the right of Agent and the Lenders to Proceeds
specifically set forth herein or indicated in any financing
statement shall never constitute an express or implied
authorization on the part of Agent or any Lender to a
Company’s sale, exchange, collection or other disposition of
any or all of the Collateral.
5. Additions to Definitions .
Section 2 of the Security Agreement is hereby amended to add
the following new definitions thereto:
“Business Day” means any
day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or another day of the year on
which national banks are authorized or required to close in
Cleveland, Ohio or New York, New York.
“Companies” means
Borrower and all Subsidiaries of Borrower.
“Company” means Borrower
or a Subsidiary of Borrower.
“Default Rate” means the
Default Rate, as defined in the Swap Agreement.
“Foreign Subsidiary”
means a Subsidiary of Pledgor that is organized under the laws of
any jurisdiction other than the United States, any State thereof or
the District of Columbia.
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“Governmental Authority”
means any nation or government, any state, province or territory or
other political subdivision thereof, any governmental agency,
department, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court,
central bank or other governmental entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative
functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange
and any self-regulatory organization exercising such
functions.
“KeyBank” means KeyBank
National Association, a national banking association, and its
successors and assigns.
“Lender” or
“Lenders” means KeyBank.
“Lien” means any
mortgage, deed of trust, security interest, lien (statutory or
other), charge, assignment, hypothecation, encumbrance on, pledge
or deposit of, or conditional sale, leasing (other than operating
leases), sale with a right of redemption or other title retention
agreement and any capitalized lease with respect to any property
(real or personal) or asset.
“Loan Documents” means,
collectively, this Agreement, the Swap Agreement, any documents
executed in connection with the Swap Agreement, and any documents
that secure the Swap Agreement, and any document executed by
Borrower in connection with obligations that are secured by the
security interest granted under this Agreement; as any of the
foregoing may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise
modified or replaced, and any other document delivered pursuant
thereto.
“Person” means any
individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture,
unincorporated organization, corporation, limited liability
company, unlimited liability company, institution, trust, estate,
Governmental Authority or any other entity.
“Related Expenses” means
any and all costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without
limitation, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions,
attorneys’ fees, legal expenses, judgments, suits and
disbursements) (a) incurred by Agent, or imposed upon or
asserted against Agent or any Lender, in any attempt by Agent and
the Lenders to (i) enforce this Agreement, the Swap Agreement
or any Related Writing, or to obtain, preserve or perfect any
security interest evidenced by this Agreement, the Swap Agreement
or any Related Writing; (ii) obtain payment, performance or
observance of any and all of the Obligations; or
(iii) maintain, insure, audit, collect, preserve, repossess or
dispose of any of the collateral securing the Obligations or any
part thereof, including, without limitation, costs and expenses for
appraisals, assessments and audits of any Company or any such
collateral; or (b) incidental or related to (a) above,
including, without limitation, interest thereupon from the date
incurred, imposed or asserted until paid at the Default Rate, as
defined in the Swap Agreement.
“Related Writing” means
each Loan Document and any other assignment, mortgage, security
agreement, guaranty agreement, subordination agreement, financial
statement, audit report or other writing furnished by Borrower, any
guarantor of payment
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or any mortgagor, or any officers or
agents of any of the foregoing, to Agent or the Lenders pursuant to
or otherwise in connection with the Obligations.
“Subsidiary” means
(a) a corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of the
Voting Power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by Pledgor
or by one or more other subsidiaries of Pledgor or by Pledgor and
one or more subsidiaries of Pledgor, (b) a partnership,
limited liability company or unlimited liability company of which
Pledgor, one or more other subsidiaries of Pledgor or Pledgor and
one or more subsidiaries of Pledgor, directly or indirectly, is a
general partner or managing member, as the case may be, or
otherwise has an ownership interest greater than fifty percent
(50%) of all of the ownership interests in such partnership,
limited liability company or unlimited liability company, or
(c) any other Person (other than a corporation, partnership,
limited liability company or unlimited liability company) in which
Pledgor, one or more other subsidiaries of Pledgor or Pledgor and
one or more subsidiaries of Pledgor, directly or indirectly, has at
least a majority interest in the Voting Power or the power to elect
or direct the election of a majority of directors or other
governing body of such Person.
“Voting Power” means,
with respect to any Person, the exclusive ability to control,
through the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership
interests, membership interests or otherwise, the election of
members of the board of directors or other similar governing body
of such Person. The holding of a designated percentage of Voting
Power of a Person means the ownership of shares of capital stock,
partnership interests, membership interests or other interests of
such Person sufficient to control exclusively the election of that
percentage of the members of the board of directors or similar
governing body of such Person.
6. Amendment to Representations
and Warranties . Section 4 of the Security Agreement is
hereby amended to delete subsections 4.5 therefrom and to insert in
place thereof the following:
4.5 Except with respect to the
security interests previously granted to Agent, and except as set
forth on Schedule 2 hereto, (a) there is no effective
U.C.C. Financing Statement outstanding covering the Collateral, or
any part thereof; (b) none of the Collateral is subject to any
security interest or Lien of any kind; (c) the Internal
Revenue Service has not alleged the nonpayment or underpayment of
any tax by Pledgor or threatened to make any assessment in respect
thereof; and (d) Agent has, for the benefit of the Lenders, a
valid and enforceable first security interest in the Collateral (to
the extent perfection can be accomplished by the filing of a U.C.C.
Financing Statement) that is the type in which a security interest
may be created under the U.C.C. by the execution of a security
agreement and perfected by the filing of a U.C.C. Financing
Statement (other than commercial tort claims). Pledgor does not own
any Subsidiaries.
7. Amendment to Insurance .
Section 5 of the Security Agreement is hereby amended to
delete Section 5 therefrom and to insert in place thereof the
following:
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5. Insurance . Pledgor shall
at all times maintain insurance upon its Inventory, Equipment and
other personal and real property with financially sound and
reputable insurance companies in at least such amounts and against
at least such risks as are generally insured against in the same
general area by companies engaged in the same or similar business,
with provisions reasonably satisfactory to Agent for payment of all
casualty losses thereunder to Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders, and Pledgor as their interests may appear (loss payable
endorsement in favor of Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders),
and, if required by Agent, Pledgor shall deposit the policies with
Agent. Any such policies of insurance shall provide for no fewer
than thirty (30) days prior written notice of cancellation to
Agent and the Lenders. Any sums received by Agent in payment of
insurance losses, transfers or takings under the policies, where
the sums received from such loss, transfer or taking are in excess
of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) (“Insurance
Funds”), shall be held by Agent, in an account at KeyBank in
Pled