Exhibit 3.1
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
ARTISTDIRECT, INC.
The undersigned Jonathan V. Diamond and Robert N. Weingarten, hereby certify that:
ONE: They are the duly elected and acting Chief Executive Officer and Secretary, respectively, of said corporation.
TWO: The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on July 14, 1999.
THREE: A First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on October 6, 1999.
FOUR: A Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on November 16, 1999.
FIVE: A Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on March 31, 2000.
SIX: The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation shall be amended and restated to read in full as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of this corporation is ARTISTdirect, Inc. (the “Corporation”).
ARTICLE II
The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 160 Greentree Drive, Suite 101, in the City of Dover, County of Kent, Delaware 19904. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is National Registered Agents, Inc.
ARTICLE III
The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “GCL”).
ARTICLE IV
The Corporation is authorized to issue one class of stock to be designated “Common Stock.” The total number of shares that the Corporation is authorized to issue is Sixty Million (60,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share.
ARTICLE V
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and rescind any or all of
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the Bylaws of the Corporation. In addition, the Bylaws may be amended by the affirmative vote of holders of at least fifty one percent (51%) of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.
ARTICLE VI
The number of directors of the Corporation shall be determined in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of any other business to be brought before any meeting of the stockholders shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors of the Corporation shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected, or until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; except that if any such election shall not be so held, such election shall take place at a stockholders’ meeting called and held in accordance with the GCL.
The directors of the Corporation shall be divided into three (3) classes as nearly equal in size as is practicable, hereby designated Class I, Class II and Class III. For the purposes hereof, the initial Class I, Class II and Class III directors shall be those directors so designated by a resolution of the Board of Directors. At the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2007, the term of office of the Class I directors shall expire and Class I directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2008, the term of office of the Class II directors shall expire and Class II directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At the annual meeting of stockholders held in 2009, the term of office of the Class III directors shall expire and Class III directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At each succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting. If the number of directors is hereafter changed, each director then serving as such shall nevertheless continue as a director of the class of which he is a member until the expiration of his current term and any newly created directorships or decrease in directorships shall be so apportioned among the classes as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as is practicable.
Vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for any reason may be filled by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, even if less than a quorum, at any meeting of the Board of Directors. A person so elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the director for which the vacancy was created or occurred and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. A director may be removed from office, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of the holders of fifty one percent (51%) of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.
ARTICLE VII
Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation and may not be effected by any consent in writing of such stockholders. At any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, only such business will be conducted or considered as has been brought before such meeting in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may only be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation or by the
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holders of fifty one percent (51%) of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide.
ARTICLE VIII
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) directors, officers, employees and agents (and any other persons to which Delaware law permits this Corporation to provide indemnification) through Bylaw provisions, agreements with such agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the GCL, subject only to limits created by applicable Delaware law (statutory or non-statutory), with respect to action for breach of duty to the Corporation, its stockholders, and others.
No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any stockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for any matter in respect of which such director shall be liable under Section 174 of the GCL or any amendment thereto or shall be liable by reason that, in addition to any and all other requirements for such liability, such director (1) shall have breached the director’s duty or loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (2) shall have acted in manner not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or, in failing to act, shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or (3) shall have derived an improper personal benefit. If the GCL is hereafter amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of a director, the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as so amended.
Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is in any way involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), including any appeal therefrom, by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another entity or enterprise, or was a director or officer of a foreign or domestic corporation which was the predecessor corporation of the Corporation or of another entity or enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation, and the Corporation shall advance all expenses incurred by any such person in defense of any such proceeding prior to its final determination, to the fullest extent authorized by the GCL. In any proceeding against the Corporation to enforce these rights, such person shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification and the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that such person has not met the standards of conduct for permissible indemnification set forth in the GCL. The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred by this Article VIII shall be presumed to have been relied upon by the directors and officers of the Corporation in serving or continuing to serve the Corporation and shall be enforceable as contract rights. Said rights shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled. The Corporation may, upon written demand presented by a director or officer of the Corporation or of a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation, or by a person serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another entity or enterprise, enter into contracts to provide such persons with specified rights to indemnification, which contracts may confer rights and protections to the maximum extent permitted by the GCL, as amended and in effect from time to time.
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If a claim under this Article VIII is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty (60) days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expenses of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce the right to be advanced expenses incurred in defending any proceeding prior to its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any, has been tendered to the Corporation ) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the GCL for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the claimant shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification and the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct for permissible indemnification set forth in the GCL.
If the GCL is hereafter amended to permit the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment, the indemnification rights conferred by this Article VIII shall be broadened to the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as so amended.
ARTICLE IX
The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
FIFTH: That the aforesaid amendment and restatement was duly adopted in accordance with the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the provisions of Section 242 and 245 of the CGL by the Board of Directors and by stockholders of the Corporation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this certificate on June 22, 2006.
| /s/ jonathan v. diamond |
| Jonathan V. Diamond |
| Chief Executive Officer |
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| /s/ Robert N. Weingarten |
| Robert N. Weingarten |
| Secretary |
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