Document:

Exhibit 10.36

 

December 19, 2008

 

Robert
Apatoff

[address]

 

Dear
Rob,

 

Reference
is made to the letter agreement (the “Agreement”) dated October 14, 2008,
between you and FTD Group, Inc. (the “Company”), and any defined terms
used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meanings ascribed thereto
in the Agreement.  For the purpose of
complying with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (“Code Section 409A”), we hereby clarify the following terms of
the Agreement:

 

1.                                       Any shares of
stock required to be issued upon the vesting of an award under the Agreement
(whether pursuant to the normal vesting schedule or on an accelerated basis)
shall be issued, subject to the Company’s collection of all applicable
withholding taxes, on the vesting date or as soon thereafter as
administratively practicable, but in no event later than the close of the
calendar year in which such vesting date occurs or (if later) the fifteenth day
of the third calendar month following such vesting date.

 

2.                                       If you
terminate your employment for any reason, or if the Company terminates your
employment for any reason, on your termination date, you will be paid your
accrued but unpaid salary for services rendered through your termination date and
your accrued but unused vacation days as of such termination date.

 

3.                                       The Release
required to be executed by you in order for you to receive the Separation
Payment must be executed and delivered to the Company within 21 days (or 45
days to the extent such longer period is required under applicable law) after
the effective date of your termination without cause.  The Separation Payment will be paid in a
series of 24 successive equal monthly installments, beginning on the first
regular payday for the Company’s salaried employees, within the 60-day period
following the date of your “separation of service” (as defined in the Treasury
Regulations issued under Code Section 409A) due to such termination, on
which the executed Release is effective and enforceable following the expiration
of any applicable revocation period under federal or state law, or as soon
thereafter as administratively practicable, but in no event later than the last
day of such  60-day period on the Release
is so effective and enforceable. Your right to each such monthly installment of
the Separation Payment will be deemed, for purposes of Code Section 409A,
to be a right to a series of separate payments.

 

4.                                       With respect to
the reduction of any payments or benefits received or to be received that would
be subject to the Excise Tax under Section 4999 of the Code, the 

 

 

cash
payments will first be reduced, with each such payment to be reduced pro-rata
but without any change in the payment date and with the monthly installments of
the Separation Payment to be the first such cash payments so reduced, and then,
if necessary, the accelerated vesting of your equity awards will be reduced in
the same chronological order in which those awards were made, but only to the
extent necessary as provided in the Agreement.

 

5.                                       If you are a “specified
employee” at the time of your separation of service:

 

(i)                                     Any payments or
benefits which become due and payable to you during the period beginning with
the date of your separation from service and ending on March 15 of the
following calendar year will not be subject to the holdback provisions of Section 7(d) and
will accordingly be paid as and when they become due and payable under the Agreement
in accordance with the short-term deferral exception to Code Section 409A.

 

(ii)                                  The remaining
portion of the payments and benefits to which you become entitled under the Agreement,
to the extent they do not in the aggregate exceed the dollar limit described
below and are otherwise scheduled to be paid no later than the last day of the
second calendar year following the calendar year in which your separation from
service occurs, shall not be subject to any deferred commencement date under Section 7(d) and
shall be paid to you as they become due and payable under the Agreement.  For purposes of this subparagraph (ii), the
applicable dollar limitation will be equal to two times the lesser of (i) your
annualized compensation (based on your annual rate of pay for the calendar year
preceding the calendar year of your separation from service, adjusted to
reflect any increase during that calendar year which was expected to continue
indefinitely had such separation from service not occurred) or (ii) the
compensation limit under Section 401(a)(17) of the Code as in effect in
the year of such  separation from
service.  To the extent the portion
of  the severance payments and benefits
to which you would otherwise be entitled under the Agreement during the
deferral period under Section 7(d) exceeds the foregoing limitation,
such excess shall be paid in a lump sum upon the expiration of that deferral
period, in accordance with the deferred payment provisions of Section 7(d),
and the remaining severance payments and benefits (if any) shall be paid in
accordance with the normal payment dates specified for them herein.

 

Except
as modified by this letter, all the terms and provisions of the Agreement will
continue in full force and effect.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

 

Please
indicate your acceptance of the foregoing terms by signing the acknowledgement
below.

 

 

	
   

  	
  FTD
  GROUP, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/
  Mark R. Goldston

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Mark
  R. Goldston

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Chief
  Executive Officer

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Dated:

  	
  December 19,
  2008

  

 

 

Acknowledged
and agreed to on the date set forth below, and effective January 1, 2009:

 

 

	
  /s/
  Robert Apatoff

  	
   

  
	
  Robert
  Apatoff

  	
   

  

 

Dated:
December 23, 2008Exhibit 10.42

 

UNITED ONLINE, INC. 

RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENT(S)

 

AMENDMENT AGREEMENT

 

AMENDMENT AGREEMENT by
and between United Online, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”),
and Jeremy Helfand (the “Participant”) to be effective as of January 1,
2009.

 

RECITALS

 

A.                                   Participant is a
party to one or more Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreements with the
Corporation pursuant to which Participant will become entitled to receive
shares of Common Stock that vest under the restricted stock units evidenced by
those agreements.

 

B.                                     The purpose of
this Amendment Agreement is to bring each of those Restricted Stock Unit
Issuance Agreements, to the extent they pertain to restricted stock units that
were not vested as of December 31, 2004, into documentary compliance with
the applicable provisions of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.

 

C.                                     The Restricted
Stock Unit Issuance Agreements that are subject to this Amendment Agreement are
more particularly identified in attached Schedule I.

 

D.                                    All capitalized
terms in this Amendment Agreement shall have the same meanings assigned to them
in the applicable Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed each of
the Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreements is hereby amended as follows,
effective January 1, 2009:

 

1.                                       The Issuance
Schedule set forth in Paragraph 1 of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance
Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“The Shares in which the Participant vests in
accordance with the regular Vesting Schedule set forth above shall be issued,
subject to the Corporation’s collection of all applicable Withholding Taxes, on
the applicable vesting date specified for those Shares in such Vesting Schedule
or as soon thereafter as administratively practicable, but in no event later
than the close of the calendar year in which the vesting date occurs or (if
later) the fifteenth day of the third calendar month following such vesting
date. The applicable Withholding Taxes are to be collected pursuant to the
procedures set forth in Paragraph 7 of this Agreement.”

 

 

2.                                       Paragraph
3 of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement is hereby amended in its
entirety to read as follows:

 

 “(a)                         Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 3(b) below, should the
Participant cease Service for any reason prior to vesting in one or more Shares
subject to this Award, then the Award will be immediately cancelled with
respect to those unvested Shares, and the number of Restricted Stock Units will
be reduced accordingly.  The Participant
shall thereupon cease to have any right or entitlement to receive any Shares
under those cancelled units.

 

(b)                                 The
Participant’s Employment Agreement sets forth certain terms and conditions
under which Participant’s equity or equity-based awards from the Corporation,
including this Award, may vest in part on an accelerated basis in connection
with his cessation of Service under various specified circumstances. The Employment
Agreement also sets forth the date or dates on which the shares of Common Stock
subject to the awards that vest on such an accelerated basis, including the
Shares subject to this Award, are to be issued.  The terms and provisions of the Employment
Agreement (including any conditions, restrictions or limitations governing the
accelerated vesting or the issuance of the Shares, including (without
limitation) the execution and delivery of an effective general release), as
they apply to this Award, are hereby incorporated by reference into this
Agreement and shall have the same force and effect as if expressly set forth in
this Agreement.”

 

3.                                       Paragraph
5(c) of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement is hereby amended in
its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(c)                            Any
Restricted Stock Units which are assumed or otherwise continued in effect in
connection with a Change in Control or replaced with a cash incentive program
under Paragraph 5(a) shall be subject to the vesting acceleration
provisions of the Participant’s Employment Agreement, and any Restricted Stock
Units or the proceeds of any replacement cash incentive plan which vest on an
accelerated basis in accordance with those provisions shall be issued or
distributed on the applicable date or dates determined for those Restricted
Stock Units pursuant to terms of the Employment Agreement. Accordingly, the
terms and provisions of the Employment Agreement (including any conditions,
restrictions or limitations governing the accelerated vesting or  issuance of the securities subject to the Participant’s
outstanding equity awards or the distribution of the proceeds of any replacement
cash incentive plan, including (without limitation) the execution and delivery
of an effective general release) shall apply to any Restricted Stock Units
which are assumed or otherwise continued in effect in connection with a Change
in Control or replaced with a cash incentive program under Paragraph 5(a) and
are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement, with the same force
and effect as if expressly set forth in this Agreement.”

 

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4.                                       Paragraph
5(d) of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement is hereby amended in
its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(d)                           If
the Restricted Stock Units subject to this Award at the time of the Change in
Control are not assumed or otherwise continued in effect or replaced with a
cash incentive program in accordance with Paragraph 5(a), then those units
shall vest immediately prior to the closing of the Change in Control. The
Shares subject to those vested units shall be converted into the right to
receive the same consideration per share of Common Stock payable to the other
stockholders of the Corporation in consummation of that Change in Control, and
such consideration shall be distributed to Participant on the effective date of
that Change in Control or as soon thereafter as administratively practicable,
but in no event later than three (3) business days following the effective
date of that Change in Control. Such distribution shall be subject to the
Corporation’s collection of the applicable Withholding Taxes pursuant to the
provisions of Paragraph 7.”

 

5.                                       There
is hereby added to each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement the following
new Paragraph 14:

 

“14.                         Deferred
Issuance Date.

 

(a)                                  It
is the intention of the parties that the provisions of this Agreement, as
amended by the Amendment Agreement, continue to comply with the requirements of
the short-term deferral exception of Section 409A of the Code and Treasury
Regulations Section 1.409A-1(b)(4). 
Accordingly, to the extent there is any ambiguity as to whether one or
more provisions of this Agreement as so amended would otherwise contravene the
requirements or limitations of Code Section 409A applicable to such
short-term deferral exception, then those provisions shall be interpreted and
applied in a manner that does not result in a violation of the requirements or
limitations of Code Section 409A and the Treasury Regulations thereunder
that apply to such exception.

 

(b)                                 If
and to the extent this Agreement may be deemed to create an arrangement subject
to the requirements of Section 409A, then no Shares or other amounts which
become issuable or distributable by reason of Participant’s cessation of Service
shall actually be issued or distributed to Participant prior to the earlier of (i) the first day of
the seventh (7th) month following the date of his or her Separation from
Service due to such cessation of Service or (ii) the date of Participant’s
death, if Participant is deemed at the time of such Separation from Service to
be a specified employee under Section 1.409A-1(i) of the Treasury
Regulations issued under Code Section 409A, as determined by the Plan
Administrator in accordance with consistent and uniform standards applied to
all other Code Section 409A arrangements of the Corporation, and such
delayed commencement is otherwise required in order to avoid a prohibited
distribution under Code Section 409A(a)(2).  The deferred 

 

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Shares or other distributable amount shall be issued
or distributed in a lump sum on the first day of the seventh (7th) month
following the date of Participant’s Separation from Service or, if earlier, the
first day of the month immediately following the date the Corporation receives
proof of Participant’s death.

 

(c)                                  For
purposes of this Agreement, the term Separation from Service shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term under Code Section 409A and the Treasury Regulations
issued thereunder.”

 

6.                                       There
is hereby added to Appendix A of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement
the following definition of Employment Agreement:

 

“Employment Agreement
shall mean the Employment Agreement between the Participant and the Corporation
dated August 15, 2007 and as amended effective January 1, 2009.”

 

7.                                       The
definitions of Involuntary Termination and Misconduct set forth in Appendix A
of each Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement are each hereby deleted in their
entirety.

 

8.                                       Except
as modified by this Amendment Agreement, all the terms and conditions of each
Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreement subject to this Amendment Agreement
shall continue in full force and effect.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each
of the parties has executed this Amendment Agreement on the date specified for
that party below.

 

	
   

  	
  UNITED ONLINE, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By: 

  	
  /s/ Mark R. Goldston

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Title: 

  	
  Chairman, President & CEO

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Dated: December 19, 2008

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Jeremy Helfand

  
	
   

  	
  PARTICIPANT

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Name: Jeremy Helfand

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Dated: December 22, 2008

  
				

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT ISSUANCE AGREEMENTS
SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT AGREEMENT

 

The Restricted Stock Unit Issuance Agreements between the Corporation
and Participant governing the following Awards are subject to the Amendment
Agreement:

 

	
  Award Date:

  	
   

  	
  Number of Restricted 

  Stock Units 

  Originally Subject to 

  Agreement:

  	
   

  	
  Number of Restricted 

  Stock Units 

  Currently Outstanding:

  	
   

  	
  Number of Restricted 

  Stock Units 

  Subject to Amendment 

  Agreement:

  	
   

  
	
  August 15, 2006

  	
   

  	
  130,000

  	
   

  	
  65,000

  	
   

  	
  65,000

  	
   

  
	
  February 15, 2007

  	
   

  	
  25,000

  	
   

  	
  16,667

  	
   

  	
  16,667

  	
   

  
	
  August 15, 2007

  	
   

  	
  100,000

  	
   

  	
  100,000

  	
   

  	
  100,000

  	
   

  
	
  February 15, 2008

  	
   

  	
  50,000

  	
   

  	
  50,000

  	
   

  	
  50,000

  	
   

  

 

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