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RELATED PARTY CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Notes to Financial Statements  
Note 9 - RELATED PARTY CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE

Baker Myers Convertible Note

 

On January 13, 2014, the Company entered into an asset purchase agreement with Baker Myers and Associates, LLC (“Baker Myers”) to acquire certain assets including, www.classifiedride.com, an online classified listing website where private sellers can buy, sell, and trade their vehicle. Ms. Myers is the managing member and sole owner of Baker Myers, and also serves as an Officer and Director of the Company. As of September 30, 2014, a convertible note was amended and issued in the amount of $587,564 with an interest rate of 8% per annum to Baker Myers. The Maturity Date of the Note is January 13, 2017. Upon default of the Note, the interest rate increases from 8% per annum to 10% per annum. Pursuant to the terms of the Note, Baker Myers may convert all or any part of the outstanding and unpaid principal amount of this Note within 180 days from the date of the note into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at the conversion price of $.05 per share with a trading limitation of 4.99% of the authorized common stock of the total shares outstanding. The Note also contains a $2,000 per day fee for failure to deliver common stock to the Holder upon three days delivery. The outstanding principle and accrued interest at December 31, 2015 was $587,564 and $92,465, respectively.

 

Baker Myers Note and Share Cancellation and Exchange Agreement

 

On May 18, 2016, the Elite Data Services, Inc. (the “Company”) Company and Baker Myers and Associates LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“Baker Myers,” an entity owned by Sarah Myers, the President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Company ) executed a Note and Share Cancellation and Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”), with respect to that certain unsecured Promissory Note (the “Original Baker Myers Note”) dated on or about January 13, 2013, in the original amount of $587,500 (the “Original Amount”), pursuant to which Baker Myers agreed to forego and waive any and all right in, entitlement to or interest in (A) a total of $87,500 in principal, a total of $92,465 in accrued interest, late charges, reimbursable attorneys’ fees, reimbursable expenses and any other sums due and payable under the Original Baker Myers Note totaling $179,952 (the “Cancelled Amount”) as of the date of execution (the “Effective Date”), any future payments due under the Original Baker Myers Note and all or any other of Baker Myers’s rights under the Cancelled Amount of the Original Baker Myers Note, thereby extinguishing and canceling the Cancelled Amount of the Original Baker Myers Note and terminating any and all of Company’s obligations thereunder, (B) the Shares (hereinafter also referred to as the “Cancelled Shares”) in exchange for the issuance an Option Agreement (the “Option Agreement”), registered in the Baker Myers’s name to purchase up to a certain number of membership interests (the “EDM Membership Interest”) of Elite Data Marketing LLC, a Florida limited liability company (the “EDM”), in an amount totaling one hundred percent (100%) of the ownership interest in EDM (the “Option 1”), (B) the issuance by Company to Baker Myers of a three-year “cashless” common stock purchase warrant (the “Warrant No. BM-1”) for the right to purchase a total of 3,000,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Preferred Warrant Shares”), at a purchase price of $0.001 per share, with certain rights and preferences as set forth in the certificate of designation (the “Certificate of Designation of Series B Preferred), in exchange for the Cancelled Shares, as referenced in the Share Exchange Agreement, and (C) the issuance of an amended and restated convertible redeemable note (the “Redeemable Note”) in the aggregate principal face amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$500,000), at ten percent (10%) interest per annum commencing on date of execution (the “Effective Date”), due and payable by the Company in eight (8) separate equal quarterly payments of Sixty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars (USD $62,500), plus accrued interest to date, due on the first day of each quarter beginning on the date of the first quarter following the date of execution of this Original Baker Myers Note, convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to the lesser of $0.01 per share or a discount of fifty-eight percent (58%) of the lowest trading price for the ten (10) prior trading days, subject to aggregate conversion limitations of 4.99% and other terms and conditions set forth therein.

 

Note Cancellation and Extinguishment Agreement

 

On or about March 14, 2017, the Company and Baker & Myers & Associates LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“Baker Myers,” an entity owned by Sarah Myers, a former Secretary, Treasurer and Director of the Company) executed a Note Cancellation and Extinguishment Agreement (the “Note Cancellation Agreement”), pursuant to which Baker Myers (also herein referred to as “Releasor”) decided to exercise the entire Option Agreement for the acquisition of Elite Data Marketing LLC, a Florida limited liability company (the “EDM”), as set forth in the Share Exchange Agreement, dated May 18, 2016, in which Releasor agreed to forego and waive any and all right in, entitlement to or interest in any principal, interest, late charges, reimbursable attorneys’ fees, reimbursable expenses and any other sums due and payable with respect to a total of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$200,000) of the final two (2) quarterly payments of the Redeemable Note dated May 18, 2016 (the “Cancelled Sum”), and any future payments due under the Cancelled Sum of the Redeemable Note and all or any other of Releasor’s rights under the Cancelled Sum of the Redeemable Note, thereby extinguishing and canceling the Cancelled Sum of the Redeemable Note and terminating any and all of Releasee’s obligations thereunder Cancelled Sum of the Redeemable Note, effective as of March 14, 2017 (the “Effective Date”), in exchange for the assignment and transfer by the Company of any and all of the issued and outstanding membership interests owned and held by Releasee representing a total of One Hundred Percent (100%) of the ownership interest of EDM to Releasor on the Effective Date (the “Cancellation Transaction”), pursuant to the Assignment of Membership Interests (the “Assignment”), attached as Exhibit A to the Note Cancellation Agreement, and including other terms and conditions set forth therein.

 

The Cancellation Transaction and Assignment resulted in Elite Data Marketing LLC, which was created in May of 2016 to hold the assets of www.classifiedride.com originally acquired by the Company from Baker Myers, no longer being a subsidiary of the Company, with no further operational effect or obligation to the Company.

 

Baker Myers Warrant Transfer – Voting Trust

 

On March 14, 2017, Baker Myers executed that certain Voting Trust Agreement, of which the Company approved, in which Baker Myers agreed to the assignment and transfer of the ownership interest of its stock purchase warrant (the “Warrant”) for the right to purchase a total of 3,000,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, owned and held by Baker Myers, to the Voting Trustee, which shall, thereafter, upon the completion by the Company of a reverse split of 1:1000 of its Common Stock, be simultaneously exercised and converted by the Company and Voting Trustee into a total of 30,000 of Series B Preferred Stock, and 2,970,000 shares of Common Stock, to be held by the Voting Trustee in the Voting Trust for the benefit of Baker Myers, in accordance with the terms of the Voting Trust Agreement (as described more fully herein).