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| COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES | NOTE 10 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Boomerang Utah is a joint and several guarantor on a twenty-year promissory note owing to Zions Bank in the principal amount of $635,245 as of March 31, 2015, bearing interest at 3.807% per annum and due August 1, 2027. The promissory note is collateralized by the real property that is the subject of the lease from SB&G to Boomerang. The Estate of Gene Mulvihill and Messrs. Checketts and Burton Koffman, are the other joint and several guarantors of the promissory note. In March 2013, we entered into a five year lease on our principal office in New Jersey, which expires in March 2018. In February 2015, we entered into a three year lease on our office in Utah which expires in February 2018. In January 2015, we entered into a three year lease on a research, design, production and testing facility in Fort Pierce, Florida, which expires in March 2018. The aggregate future minimum annual rental payments on these leases, exclusive of escalation payments for taxes and operating costs, are as follows:
On March 15, 2013, Crescent Heights R&D, LLC (“Crescent Heights”), filed a complaint against Boomerang in the State of Florida for fraud, breach of contract and specific performance, as well as equitable rescission which alleged an unspecified amount of damages in excess of the purchase price. Boomerang was subsequently granted a motion to remove this matter to federal court. On May 17, 2013, the court entered an order that our motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings be granted. The parties agreed to arbitrate the matter in front of the American Arbitration Association in November 2014. The dispute arose from a contract to provide a rack and rail automated parking system. On April 21, 2015, the arbitrator issued a Final Arbitration Award. The arbitrator denied Crescent Heights’ claims of fraud in the inducement, equitable rescission based on fraud, and declaratory relief to strike the limitation of liability clause, but found Boomerang in Breach of Contract. Crescent Heights was awarded damages of $1,197,890, plus attorneys’ fees and costs of $319,920, which Boomerang is required to pay in fiscal year 2015. Boomerang established a reserve of $1,517,810 for the amount of the award, attorneys’ fees and costs. On May 15, 2013, Boomerang entered into a Manufacturing and Licensing Agreement (the “Agreement”) with JBT Corporation (“JBT”), pursuant to which JBT would manufacture all Boomerang automated guided vehicles (“AGVs”) and license certain software to us for use in our robotic parking systems, including a non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to sub-license the software to customers for the duration of each customer contract with Boomerang. In each year from the effective date of May 15, 2013, Boomerang was required to purchase a minimum of 25 AGVs from JBT based on JBT’s cost plus an agreed upon profit. If we did not meet these minimum requirements, JBT’s sole remedy was to terminate the Agreement. In the event of expiration or termination of the Agreement, JBT is subject to a three-year non-competition provision, and obligated to license to Boomerang software for up to three years from the expiration or termination date. The Agreement was terminated by JBT effective May 23, 2014, due to Boomerang not meeting the minimum purchase requirements described above. With JBT’s knowledge, Boomerang manufactured, assembled, tested and delivered all AGVs for our first RoboticValet project, BrickellHouse, and expects to do so for subsequent projects in which our first-generation AGV design is included. As mentioned above, under the Agreement, Boomerang has the right to continue to license software through May 22, 2017, and expects to collaborate with JBT on a project-by-project basis going forward. On June 6, 2013, Boomerang entered into a marketing agreement with BrickellHouse Holding, LLC, whereas BrickellHouse Holding, LLC will allow Boomerang to use its parking system for sales and marketing purposes. Boomerang will pay BrickellHouse Holding, LLC a royalty for each sale of a system equal to 2% of the purchase price of that system, not to exceed an aggregate of $2 million. The agreement shall be in effect until the amount of royalty payments reaches $2 million. As of March 31, 2015, the Company accrued $41,529 of royalty payments under this agreement. |