EXHIBIT 3.1.3

                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                     OF THE
               AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                         j2 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

                    Adopted in accordance with the provisions
                   of Section 242 of the General Corporation
                          Law of the State of Delaware

     j2 Global Communications, Inc. (the "Corporation"), a corporation organized
and existing by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
as amended (the "Delaware GCL"), by its duly authorized officers, hereby
certifies as follows:

     FIRST: That the Board of Directors of the Corporation has duly adopted a
resolution authorizing the Corporation to reclassify, change and convert each
four (4) outstanding shares of the Corporation's Common Stock, par value $0.01
per share, into one (1) share of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share.

     SECOND: That, pursuant to authorization by the affirmative vote, in
accordance with the provisions of the Delaware GCL, of the holders of a majority
of the outstanding Common Stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon at a
special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation held on February 6, 2001, the
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation be amended
by adding a new paragraph to Article FOURTH to read as follows:

           (c) Each four shares of the Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share,
      of the Corporation issued and outstanding or held in treasury as of 12:01
      a.m. Los Angeles time on February 7, 2001 (the "Effective Time") shall be
      reclassified as and changed into one (1) share of Common Stock, par value
      $0.01 per share, of the Corporation, without any action by the holders
      thereof. Each stockholder who, immediately prior to the Effective Time,
      owns a number of shares of Common Stock which is not evenly divisible by
      four shall, with respect to such fractional interest, be entitled to
      receive from the Corporation cash in an amount equal to such fractional
      interest multiplied by the average of the closing bid and closing asked
      prices of the Common Stock as last reported on The Nasdaq National Market
      immediately prior to the Effective Time.

     THIRD: That the amendments to the Corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation set forth herein have been duly adopted in accordance with the
provisions of Section 242 of the Delaware GCL.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this certificate to be
executed on its behalf by Richard S. Ressler, its Chairman of the Board, on
February 6, 2001, hereby declaring and certifying that this is the act and deed
of the Corporation and that the facts herein stated are true.

                          /s/ Richard S. Ressler
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                          Name: Richard S. Ressler
                          Title: Chairman of the Board

ATTEST:

         /s/ Jeffrey D. Adelman
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Name: Jeffrey D. Adelman
Title:  Secretary