Assignment and Assumption Agreement



 Exhibit 10.17 
  
 ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT 
  

This Assignment and Assumption Agreement (“Agreement”) is made as of May 27, 2003, among THINKSPARK CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation (successor by merger to ThinkSpark Corporation, a Texas corporation) and THINKSPARK, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (collectively, “Assignor”), and AXTIVE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation
(“Assignee”). 
  
 RECITALS 
  
 A. Assignor has incurred indebtedness to Merrill Lynch Business Financial
Services Inc. (“Lender”) pursuant to that certain WCMA Loan and Security Agreement No. 542-07C00 dated as of February 19, 1999 between Assignor, as borrower, and Lender (as amended, and as the same may be further amended, restated,
extended, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, the “WCMA Loan Agreement”). As of the date hereof, the Assignor owes principal and accrued interest in the amount of $6,781,022.82 under the WCMA Loan Agreement.

  
 B. Assignee is, concurrently herewith, purchasing all of the
outstanding capital stock of Assignor pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of May 23, 2003 among Assignor, Assignee Axtive Acquisition Corp. and Kerry Osborne (the “Merger”). 
  
 C. In connection with the Merger, Assignor now desires to assign
Assignor’s rights and obligations under the WCMA Loan Agreement to Assignee (without releasing the continuing security interest in Assignor’s assets in favor of Lender thereunder), and Assignee desires to accept such assignment pursuant to
the terms and conditions contained herein. 
  
 AGREEMENT

  
 Now therefore, for and in consideration of the premises and
the agreements contained herein, the parties agree as follows: 
  
 1. Assignment. Subject to obtaining the consent of Lender as required by the WCMA Loan Agreement, Assignor hereby assigns and transfers to Assignee all Assignor’s rights, title and interest in and to the WCMA Loan Agreement, to
have and hold the same from the date hereof through the remainder of the term of the WCMA Loan Agreement. Notwithstanding the forgoing sentence, Assignee shall not be required to grant to the Lender a continuing security interest in its assets,
provided that (a) Assignor executes such guaranty agreements as Lender may require to effectuate a continuing guarantee of payment and performance (and not of merely collection) of the indebtedness, obligations and liabilities assigned to Assignee
hereunder, and (b) Assignor affirms the continuation of the Lender’s security interest under the WCMA Loan Agreement and executes such security agreements or other documents as Lender may require in connection with the continuation of such
security interest. 
  

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 2. Assumption. Assignee hereby accepts assignment of the WCMA Loan Agreement and agrees to perform
from the date hereof as its obligation, directly and to Lender, all of the terms, covenants and conditions of the WCMA Loan Agreement on the borrower’s part to be performed from and after the date hereof; provided that Assignee does not assume
any requirement to provide, as security for the indebtedness under the WCMA Loan Agreement, a security interest in favor of Lender in and to Assignee’s assets. 
  
 3. Successors and Assigns. All of the covenants, terms and conditions set forth herein, shall be binding upon and
shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, provided that any further assignment of the WCMA Loan Agreement must comply with the terms of the WCMA Loan Agreement. 
  

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 In Witness Whereof, this Agreement is executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.

  

	 ASSIGNOR:

	
	 THINKSPARK CORPORATION

		
	 By:
	 	 /s/    DAVID N. PILOTTE


	 Name:
	 	 David N. Pilotte

	 Title:
	 	 VP




	
	 THINKSPARK, L.P.

	 By:
	 	 ThinkSpark GP, LLC, its general partner

			
	 	 	 By:
	 	 /s/    KERRY
OSBORNE


	 	 	 Name:
	 	Kerry Osborne
	 	 	Title:	 	 Member




	
	 ASSIGNEE:

	
	 AXTIVE CORPORATION

		
	 By:
	 	 /s/    DAVID N.
PILOTTE


	 Name:
	 	 David N. Pilotte

	 Title:
	 	 Member



  

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 CONSENT OF LENDER 
  
 Reference is made to that certain Assignment and Assumption Agreement dated as of May 27, 2003, between ThinkSpark
Corporation and ThinkSpark, L.P., as assignor (“Assignor”), and Axtive Corporation, as assignee (“Assignee”) (the “Assignment and Assumption Agreement”). 
  
 Subject to the terms and conditions of the Assignment and Assumption Agreement, Lender hereby consents to (a) the assignment
by Assignor of its rights and obligations under the WCMA Loan Agreement (as defined in the Assignment and Assumption Agreement”) and (b) the assumption by Assignee of Assignor’s obligations, liabilities and indebtedness under the Loan
Agreements. 
  
 Executed as of May 27, 2003. 

	 LENDER:

	
	MERRILL LYNCH BUSINESS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
		
	 By:
	 	         /s/    BILL KOCOLOWSKI


	 Name:
	 	         Bill Kocolowski

	 Title:
	 	         Vice President



  

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