EXHIBIT 10.46
THIS NOTE HAS BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT
AND HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR THE SECURITIES
LAWS OF ANY STATE. THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE
SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL
SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH
REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED BY SAID ACT
OR STATE LAWS,
ORTHOMETRIX, INC.
$80,000.00 White Plains, New York
September 13, 2004
ORTHOMETRIX, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), for value
received, promises to pay to XXXXXXX XXXXXXX (the "Payee"), the principal sum of
Eighty Thousand U.S. Dollars ($80,000) on September 13, 2005 (the "Maturity
Date"), except as otherwise provided herein, together with interest on the
outstanding principal amount of this Note at the rate of prime (as published
from time to time by XX Xxxxxx Xxxxx) plus one per annum, except as otherwise
provided herein. Interest shall be payable quarterly on the last business day of
each March, June, September and December, commencing September 30, 2004.
1. Payments and Prepayments.
1.1 Payments and prepayments of principal and interest on this Note shall
be made to Payee at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X.
10604.
1.2 Payments and prepayments of principal and interest on this Note shall
be made in lawful money of the United States of America.
1.3 If any payment on this Note becomes due and payable on a Saturday,
Sunday or other day an which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or
required by law to close, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next
succeeding business day, and, with respect to payments of principal, interest
thereon shall be payable during such extension at the then applicable rate.
1.4 The Company shall be obligated to prepay the outstanding principal
amount of this Note within ten (10) days after such time as (i) the Company
receives net proceeds
of at least $1,000,000 from an equity financing, or (ii) the Company sells
substantially all its assets. The Company shall have the right at any time and
from time to time to prepay this Note in whole or in part, together with
interest on the amount prepaid to the date of prepayment, without penalty or
premium. Upon payment of part of the principal amount of this Note, the Company
may require the holder to present this Note for notation of such payment and, if
this Note is paid in full, require the holder to surrender this Note.
1.5 Upon payrnent in full of all outstanding principal and interest due
under this Note, the Company's obligations in respect of payment of this Note
shall terminate and the holder shall return it to the Company.
2. Events of Default. In the event that:
(a) the Company defaults for more than five business days in making
any payment required to be made on this Note; or
(b) the Company hereafter makes an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or files a petition in bankruptcy as to itself, is
adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt, petitions or applies to any
tribunal for the appointment of any receiver of or any trustee for the
Company or any substantial part of its property under any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, readjustment of debt, dissolution or
liquidation law or statute of any jurisdiction, whether now or
hereafter in effect; or if there is hereafter commenced against the
Company any such proceeding and an order approving the petition is
entered or such proceeding remains undismissed for a period of 60 day,
or the Company or its general partner by any act or omission to act
indicates its consent to or approval of or acquiescence in any such
proceeding or the appointment of any receiver of, or trustee for, the
Company or any substantial part of its property, or suffers any such
receivership or trusteeship to continue undischarged for a period of
60 days;
then, and in any such event, and at any time thereafter, if such event shall
then be continuing, the holder of this Note may, by written notice to the
Company, declare the Note due and payable, whereupon the same shall be due and
payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of
which are hereby expressly waived.
3. Investment Representation.
3.1 The Payee hereby acknowledges that the Note is not being registered (i)
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), on the ground that the
issuance of the Note is exempt from registration under Section 4(2) of the Act
as not involving any public offering or (ii) under any applicable state
securities law because the issuance of the Note does not involve any public
offering; and that the Company's reliance on the Section 4(2) exemption of the
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Act and under applicable state securities laws is predicated in part on the
representations hereby made to the Company by the Payee that it is acquiring the
Note for investment for its own account, with no present intention of dividing
its participation with others or reselling or otherwise distributing the same,
subject, nevertheless, to any requirement of law that the disposition of its
property shall at all times be within its control.
3.2 The Payee hereby agrees that it will not sell or transfer all or any
part of this Note unless and until it shall first have given notice to the
Company describing such sale or transfer and furnished to the Company an
opinion, reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Company, of counsel skilled
in securities matters (selected by the holder and reasonably satisfactory to the
Company) to the effect that the proposed sale or transfer may be made without
registration under the Act and without registration or qualification under any
state.
3.3 The Company may refuse to recognize a transfer of this Note on its
books should a holder attempt to transfer this Note otherwise than in compliance
with this Section 3.
4. Miscellaneous.
4.1 Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the
loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Note and of a letter of indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Company, and upon reimbursement to the Company of
all reasonable expenses incident thereto, and upon surrender or cancellation of
the Note, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Note of like
tenor in lieu of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note.
4.2 This Note and the rights and obligations of the Company and each holder
hereunder shall be construed in accordance with and be governed by the laws of
the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed this Note as of the day and
year first above written.
ORTHOMETRIX, INC,
By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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