Examples of First Modification Agreement in a sentence
The obligations of Company under the Credit Agreement are secured by a Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 31, 1992 as amended by the First Modification Agreement (as so amended, the "Pledge Agreement") under which Company pledged to Bank the shares of capital stock of certain of the Subsidiaries.
Next, regarding the unjust enrichment claim against VPMC, we are of the opinion that any claim against VPMC would also be governed by the First Modification Agreement since the VPMC Principals are parties to that contract.
Defendants argue that the First Modification Agreement is a “best efforts” contract and “is naturally a personal services contract at its core, given that a best efforts obligation has the element of diligence at its essence and requires the obligee to use all reasonable methods to achieve the objective going beyond the usual duty of good faith.” (Defs.’Mot.
Defendants next claim that the First Modification Agreement was superseded by the Second Modification Agreement.
Gambone, Sr. (And ergo their respective Estates)under the personal services provision of the First Modification Agreement ceased at the time of 11In their Motion to Dismiss, Defendants do not specifically argue that Oldcastle’s claim of promissory estoppel against the VPMC Principals (Count IX) should be dismissed for failure to state a claim.
However, just as we declined to dismiss tort claims against Michael Gambone based on the gist of the action doctrine because we believe the issue to be premature, we also find that this issue is premature.Oldcastle has plead a number of averments stating that Michael Gambone acted in his “individual capacity,” however, we simply do not have enough information in the current record concerning his involvement in the First Modification Agreement to make this determination at this time.
Defendants maintain that Oldcastle admits in its Amended Complaint that Michael Gambone’s involvement in this case is “as president of VPMC,” and that as “president of VPMC,” Michael Gambone “knew that the VPMC Principals made these promises” in the First Modification Agreement and “upon information and belief, participated in the negotiation of the First Modification.” (Am. Compl.
In the present action, the language of the First Modification Agreement does not specifically state that the VPMC Principals’ obligations to bring about the sale of the Shops and to pay Oldcastle with the funds from the sale were expressly conditioned upon the occurrence of a particular event - here being the sale of the Shops on or before August 3, 2008.
As noted, the First Modification Agreement states that the VPMC Principals “have a reasonable belief that the [Shops] will be sold on or before August 3, 2008,” and “will use best efforts to cause VPMC to sell the [Shops] on or before August 3, 2008.” (Am. Compl.; Ex. G ¶2.3.) It does not state that the VPMC Principals were obligated to sell the Shops by that date.
In this respect, the contract is ambiguous, and the intentions of the parties is unclear regarding performance of the First Modification Agreement in the event of death.