Certificate of Incorporation - Playboy Online Inc.
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
of
PLAYBOY ONLINE, INC.
The undersigned incorporator, in order to form a corporation
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "General
Corporation Law"), certifies as follows:
1. NAME. The name of the corporation is Playboy Online, Inc.
(the "Corporation").
2. ADDRESS; REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT. The address of the
Corporation's registered office is 9 East Loockerman Street, City of Dover,
County of Kent, State of Delaware, 19801; and its registered agent at such
address is National Corporate Research Ltd.
3. PURPOSES. The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in
any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the
General Corporation Law.
4. NUMBER OF SHARES. The total number of shares of stock that
the Corporation shall have authority to issue is: One-thousand (1,000), all of
which shall be shares of Common Stock of the par value of one cent ($0.01) each.
5. NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS OF INCORPORATOR. The name and
mailing address of the incorporator are: Tarun M. Stewart, Esq., Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
10019-6064.
6. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Members of the Board of Directors
of the Corporation (the "Board") may be elected either by written ballot or by
voice vote.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. No director of the Corporation
shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that this provision
shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (a) for
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any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its
stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under section 174 of
the General Corporation Law or (d) for any transaction from which the director
derived any improper personal benefits.
Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provision shall
not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation
existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
8. INDEMNIFICATION.
8.1 To the extent not prohibited by law, the Corporation
shall indemnify any person who is or was made, or threatened to be made, a party
to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (a
"Proceeding"), whether criminal, administrative or investigative, including,
without limitation, an action by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a
judgment in its favor, by reason of the fact that such person, or a person of
whom such person is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of
the Corporation, or, at the request of the Corporation, is or was serving as a
director or officer of any other corporation or in a capacity with comparable
authority or responsibilities for any partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise (an "Other Entity"), against
judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes, amounts paid in settlement and costs,
charges and expenses (including attorneys' fees, disbursements and other
charges). Persons who are not directors or officers of the Corporation (or
otherwise entitled to indemnification pursuant to the preceding sentence) may be
similarly indemnified in respect of service to the Corporation or to an Other
Entity at the request of the Corporation to the extent the Board at any time
specifies that such persons are entitled to the benefits of this Section 8.
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8.2 The Corporation shall, from time to time, reimburse or
advance to any director or officer or other person entitled to indemnification
hereunder the funds necessary for payment of expenses, including attorneys' fees
and disbursements, incurred in connection with any Proceeding, in advance of
the final disposition of such Proceeding: provided, however, that, if required
by the General Corporation Law, such expenses incurred by or on behalf of any
director or officer or other person may be paid in advance of the final
disposition of a Proceeding only upon by Corporation of an undertaking, by or on
behalf of such director or officer (or other person indemnified hereunder), to
repay any such amount so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final
judicial decision from which there is no further right of appeal that such
director, officer or other person is not entitled to be indemnified for such
expenses.
8.3 The rights to indemnification and reimbursement or
advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Section 8
shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking
indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses may have or
hereafter be entitled under any statute, this Certificate of Incorporation, the
By-laws of the Corporation (the "Bylaws"), any agreement, any vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his
or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office.
8.4 The rights to indemnification and reimbursement or
advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Section 8
shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer (or
other person indemnified hereunder) and shall inure to the benefit of the
executors, administrators, legatees and distributees of such person.
8.5 The Corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain
Insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or
agent of the
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Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a
director, employee or agent of an Other Entity, against any liability asserted
against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising
out of such person's status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have
the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions
of this Section 8, the By-laws or under section 145 of the General Corporation
Law or any other provision of law.
8.6 The provisions of this Section 8 shall be a conduct
between the Corporation, on the one hand, and each director and officer who
serves in such capacity at any time while this Section 8 is in effect and any
other person entitled to indemnification hereunder, on the other hand, pursuant
to which the Corporation and each such director, officer, or other person intend
to be, and shall be, legally bound. No repeal or modification of this Section 8
shall affect any rights or obligations with respect to any state of facts then
or theretofore existing or thereafter arising or any proceeding theretofore or
thereafter brought or threatened based in whole or in part upon any such state
of facts.
8.7 The rights to indemnification and reimbursement or
advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Section 8
shall be enforceable by any person entitled to such indemnification or
reimbursement or advancement of expenses in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The burden of proving that such indemnification or reimbursement or advancement
of expenses is not appropriate shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure
of the Corporation (including Board, its independent legal counsel and its
stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such
action that such indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses is
proper in the circumstances nor an actual determination by the Corporation
(including its Board, its independent legal counsel
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and its stockholders) that such person is not entitled to such indemnification
or reimbursement or advancement of expenses shall constitute a defense to the
action or create a presumption that such person is not so enticed. Such a person
shall also be indemnified for any expenses incurred in connection with
successfully establishing his or her right to such indemnification or
reimbursement or advancement of expenses, in whole or in part, in any such
proceeding.
8.8 Any director or officer of the Corporation serving in any
capacity of (a) another corporation of which a majority of the shares entitled
to vote in the election of its directors is held, directly or indirectly, by the
Corporation or (b) any employee benefit plan of the Corporation or any
corporation referred to in clause (a) shall be deemed to be doing so at the
request of the Corporation.
8.9 Any person entitled to be indemnified or to reimbursement
or advancement of expenses as a matter of right pursuant to this Section 8 may
elect to have the right to indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of
expenses interpreted on the basis of the applicable law in effect at the time of
the occurrence of the event or events giving rise to the applicable Proceeding,
to the extent permitted by law, or on the basis of the applicable law in effect
at the time such indemnification reimbursement or advancement of expenses is
sought; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if no such notice is given, the right to
indemnification or reimbursement or advancement of expenses shall be determined
by the law in effect; the time indemnification or reimbursement or advancement
of expenses is sought.
9. ADOPTION, AMENDMENT AND/OR REPEAL OF BY-LAWS. The Board
may from time to time adopt, amend or repeal the By-laws of the Corporation;
provided, however, that any By-laws adopted or amended by the Board may be
amended or repealed, and any By-laws may
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be adopted, by the stockholders of the corporation by vote of a majority of the
holders of shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in the election
of directors of the Corporation.
10. ACTION BY STOCKHOLDERS. Notwithstanding the provisions of
section 228 of the General Corporation law (or any successor statute), any
action required or permitted by the General Corporation Law to be taken at any
annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken only
at such an annual or special meeting of stockholders and cannot be taken by
written consent without a meeting.
WITNESS the signature of this Certificate this 25th day of
November, 1998.
/s/ TARUN M. STEWART
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Tarun M. Stewart, Esq.
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