EX-99.30HIB3II 9 nc10028325x1_ex9930hib3ii.htm FIDELITY SECOND AMENDMENT DATED 5/22/2017 TO SERVICE CONTRACT

Item 30  Exhibit (h) i. b. 3. ii.

SECOND AMENDMENT TO SERVICE CONTRACT

This Second amendment (“Amendment”) to the Service Contract with respect to Initial, Service Class and Service Class II Shares by and between FIDELITY DISTRIBUTORS CORPORATION (“FDC”) and MML Investors Services, LLC (“MMLIS”) dated January 1, 2004, as amended on October 1, 2008 (“Service Contract”) is effective May 22, 2017.

WHEREAS, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Variable Insurance Products Fund, Variable Insurance Products Fund II, Variable Insurance Products Fund III, Variable Insurance Products Fund IV, Variable Insurance Products Fund V, and FDC have entered into an Amended and Restate Participation Agreement dated May 22, 2017, as further amended on May 22, 2017;and

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Service Contract.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants hereinafter set forth, and intending to be legally bound, the parties hereby agree that the Service Contract is amended to:

1.
acknowledge that MMLIS’ affiliates, MML Strategic Distributors, LLC (“MSD”) and MML Distributors, LLC (“MMLD”) also act a principal underwriters for certain of the Variable Products and that MSD and MMLD are hereby made a party to the Service Contract; and

2.
acknowledge that Variable Insurance Products Fund IV and Variable Insurance Product V are included under the Service Contract.

Except as expressly provided herein, all provisions of the Service Contract shall remain in effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereunto set their hands and seals, and hereby execute this Amendment, as of the effective date first above written.

FIDELITY DISTRIBUTORS CORPORATION
   
         
By:
/s/ Robert Bachman
     
Name:
Robert Bachman
     
Title
EVP
     
         
MML STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTORS, LLC
 
MML DISTRIBUTORS, LLC
         
By:
/s/ Eric Wietsma
   
/s/ Eric Wietsma
Name:
Eric Wietsma
 
Name
Eric Wietsma
Title
President
 
Title
President
         
MML INVESTORS SERVICES, LLC
     
       
By:
/s/ Wendy Benson
     
Name:
Wendy Benson
     
 
President
     


1