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EXHIBIT 10.31

 

INVENTORY SECURITY AGREEMENT

New York, NY September 29, 2010

ROSENTHAL & ROSENTHAL, INC.

1370 Broadway

New York NY 10018

Gentlemen:

We do hereby agree that the Factoring Agreement between us dated September 29, 2010, as amended and supplemented, (the “Factoring Agreement”) be and the same hereby is amended and supplemented by adding thereto the following clauses:

We hereby pledge, assign, consign, transfer and set over to you, and you shall at all times have a continuing general lien upon, and we hereby grant you a continuing security interest in, all of our Inventory and the proceeds thereof.  "Inventory" shall include but not be limited to raw materials, work in process, finished merchandise and all wrapping, packing and shipping materials, wheresoever located, now owned or hereafter acquired, presently existing or hereafter arising, and all additions and accessions thereto, the resulting product or mass and any documents representing all or any part thereof.  At any time after we give you notice of a Default (as defined in the Factoring Agreement), upon your request, we will at any time and from time to time, at our expense, deliver such Inventory to you or such person as you may designate, cause the same to be stored in your name at such place as you may designate, deliver to you documents of title representing the same or otherwise evidence your security interest in such manner as you may require.

The aforementioned pledge, assignment, consignment, transfer, lien and security interest shall secure any and all of William Rast Sourcing, LLC’s obligations to you, matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent, now existing or that may hereafter arise, and how­soever acquired by you, whether arising directly between us or acquired by you by assignment and whether relating to this agreement or independent hereof, together with all interest, charges, commissions, expenses, attorneys' fees and other items chargeable against us in connection with any of said obligations.

We agree, at our expense, to keep all Inventory insured to the full value thereof against such risks and by policies of insurance issued by such companies as you may designate or approve, and the policies evidencing such insurance shall be duly endorsed in your favor with a long form lender's loss payable rider or such other document as you may designate and said policies shall be delivered to you.  Should we fail for any reason to furnish you with such insurance, you shall have the right to effect the same and charge any costs in connection therewith to us.  You shall have no risk, liability or responsi­bility in connection with payment or nonpayment of any loss, your sole obligation being to credit our account with the net proceeds of any such insurance payments received on account of any loss.  Any and all assessments, taxes or other charges that may be assessed upon or payable with respect to the Inventory or any part thereof shall forthwith be paid by us, and we agree that you, in your discretion, may effect such payment and charge the amount thereof to us.  We further agree that except for the pledge, assignment, consignment, transfer, lien and security interest granted to you hereby, and a subordinated lien in favor of Mobility Specialty Situations I, LLC ECA Holdings II, LLC and New Retail Media Concepts, LLC, we shall not permit said Inventory to otherwise become liened or encumbered nor shall we grant any security interest therein to any other party.  We shall not, without your written consent first obtained, remove or dispose of any of such Inventory except to bona fide purchasers thereof in the ordinary course of our business.  All such sales shall be reported to you promptly and the accounts or other proceeds thereof shall be subject to the security interests in your favor.  At any time after we give you notice of a Default, you shall have the right to the immediate possession of all Inventory and its products and proceeds and we shall make such Inventory and all our records pertaining thereto available to you for inspection at any time requested by you.  You shall have the right, in your discretion, to pay any liens or claims upon said Inventory, including, but not limited to, warehouse charges, dyeing, finishing and processing charges, landlords' claims, etc. and the amount of any such payment shall be charged to our account and secured hereby.  You shall not be liable for the safekeeping of any of the Inventory or for any loss, damage or diminution in the value thereof or for any act or default of any warehouseman, carrier or other person dealing in and with said Inventory, whether as your agent or otherwise, or for the collection of any proceeds thereof but the same shall at all times be at our sole risk.

  

  

  

Prior to its sale to a bona fide purchaser in the ordinary course of business, Inventory shall at all times remain at our address specified below and at Pixior, 5901 W. Eastern Ave., Commerce, CA 90040 and shall not be removed therefrom without your prior written consent.

Upon Default, you shall have the right, upon reasonable notice to us, to sell all or any part of our Inventory, at public or private sale, or make other disposition thereof, at which sale or disposition you may be a purchaser whether for credit (by offsetting all or a portion of the amount of indebtedness owing by us to you or otherwise) cash or otherwise.  We agree that written notice sent to us by postpaid mail, at least five days before the date of any intended public sale or the date after which any private sale or other intended disposition of the Inventory is to be made, shall be deemed to be reasonable notice thereof.  We do hereby waive all notice of any such sale or other intended disposition if said Inventory is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.  Upon Default, you may require us to assemble all or any part of the Inventory and make it available to you at a place to be designated by you, which is reasonably convenient to both parties.  In addition, you may peaceably, by your own means or with judicial assistance, enter our or any other premises and take possession of the Inventory and remove or dispose of it on our premises and we agree that we will not resist or interfere with any such action.  We hereby expressly waive demand, notice of sale (except as herein provided), advertisement of sale and redemption before sale.  The net proceeds of any such public or private sale or other disposition shall be applied toward the payment and discharge of any and all of our obligations to you, together with all interest thereon and all reasonable costs, charges, expenses and disbursements in connection therewith, including the reasonable fees of your attorneys, we, of course, to continue liable should there be any deficiency.

This agreement shall constitute a security agreement pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code and, in addition to any and all of your other rights hereunder, you shall have all of the rights of a secured party pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code.  We agree to execute a financing statement and any and all other instruments and documents that may now or hereafter be provided for by the Uniform Commercial Code or other law applicable thereto, reflecting the security interests granted to you hereunder.  We do hereby authorize you to file a financing statement without our signature, signed only by you as secured party, to reflect the security interests granted to you hereunder.

Very Truly Yours,

WILLIAM RAST SOURCING, LLC

By:  /s/ Colin Dyne      

Colin Dyne, Manager

Address:  1212 Flower St., 5th Fl., Los Angeles, CA  90015

  

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EXHIBIT 10.32

 

 

ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

Agreement made this 29th day of September, 2010, between William Rast Licensing, LLC (“WRL”) and Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc. (“Rosenthal”).

W I T N E S S E T H

WHEREAS, Rosenthal and William Rast Sourcing, LLC (“Client”) have entered or will enter into a factoring agreement dated September 29, 2010 (the “Factoring Agreement”) of which WRL has entered into a guaranty in favor of Rosenthal; and

WHEREAS, WRL and Viva Optique, Inc. (“Licensee”) entered into a License Agreement dated as of December 3, 2009, pursuant to which, among other things, Licensee was granted a license for the use of the trademark “William Rast” (the “License Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, WRL desires to induce Rosenthal to make advances to Client pursuant to the Factoring Agreement, and has agreed to provide Rosenthal with additional security for the Obligations (as such term is defined in the Factoring Agreement), to wit, a security interest in and right to receive directly from Licensee all royalty payments due under the License Agreement (the “Royalty Payments”).

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and other valuable consideration, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto have agreed as follows:

1.           WRL represents and warrants that annexed hereto are true and correct copies of (a) the License Agreement and (b) to WRL’s knowledge, no default has occurred thereunder.

2.            As security for the full and timely payment and performance of the Obligations, WRL hereby irrevocably assigns, transfers and sets over unto Rosenthal and grants to Rosenthal a security interest in and to all of its right, title and interest in and to all monies and claims for monies due or to become due to WRL under the License Agreement including, without limitation, the Royalty Payments.

3.           WRL hereby irrevocably authorizes and empowers Rosenthal, at any time after Rosenthal has sent WRL a notice of a default under the Factoring Agreement (the “Trigger Notice”), to ask, demand, receive, receipt and give acquittance for any and all such monies hereby assigned to endorse any checks or other orders for the payment of money payable to WRL pursuant to the License Agreement and, in its discretion, to file any claims or take any action or commence proceeding in its own name or the name of WRL or otherwise, which Rosenthal may deem necessary or advisable to enforce its rights pursuant to this Agreement.  WRL agrees that it will at all times hereafter at the request of Rosenthal, make do and execute all such further acts, agreements, assurances and other documents and instruments as shall be reasonably required to enable Rosenthal, at any time after and during the continuance of Client’s default under the Factoring Agreement, to collect all sums due or to become due under or in

  

  

  

connection with the Licensing Agreement according to the intent and purpose of this Agreement.  Rosenthal agrees that it will not send the Trigger notice to Licensee unless and until it has a reasonable belief that a default has occurred under the Factoring Agreement.

4.           WRL will not, without the prior written consent of Rosenthal, amend or consent to an amendment of the License Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused these presents to be executed by their corporate officers thereunto duly authorized and their corporate seals to be hereto affixed as of the 29th day of September, 2010.

WILLIAM RAST LICENSING, LLC

By:  /s/ Colin Dyne            

Name:  Colin Dyne

Title:

Accepted:

ROSENTHAL & ROSENTHAL, INC.

By:               

J. Michael Stanley

Managing Director

The undersigned hereby: (1) consents in all respects to the foregoing Agreement (the “Subject Agreement”) and, at all times after the Trigger Notice is received by it from Rosenthal until instructed otherwise by Rosenthal, agrees to pay directly and only to Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc. at 1370 Broadway, New York, NY  10018 (“Rosenthal”) any and all sums payable by the undersigned to William Rast Licensing, LLC pursuant to the License Agreement (as such terms are defined in the Subject Agreement); and (2) represents and warrants that the document annexed to the Subject Agreement (a) is a true and correct copy of the License Agreement; (b) is in full force and effect and (c) to the undersigned’s knowledge, no default has occurred thereunder; and (3) agrees not to (a) amend or (b) consent to the amendment of the License Agreement without the prior written consent of Rosenthal.

Any notice which, pursuant to the terms hereof must be sent by Rosenthal to the undersigned must be sent by certified or registered mail and shall be deemed given and effective when received by Licensee at: Viva Optique, Inc., 3140 Rte. 22 W, Somerville, NJ  08876, Attention: ____________.

	  	
VIVA OPTIQUE, INC.

 

By: ________________________

Name:

Title:

  

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