EX-3.1 2 v426242_ex3-1.htm EXHIBIT 3.1

 

Exhibit 3.1

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MARTHA STEWART LIVING OMNIMEDIA, INC.

 

ARTICLE I
NAME OF CORPORATION

 

The name of the corporation is: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (the “Corporation”)

 

ARTICLE II
REGISTERED OFFICE

 

The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is c/o Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., 1679 S Dupont Highway, Suite 100, in the City of Dover 19901, County of Kent, and the name of its registered agent at such address is Registered Agent Solutions, Inc.

 

ARTICLE III
PURPOSE

 

The purpose of the Corporation 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.

 

ARTICLE IV
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK

 

The Corporation shall be authorized to issue one class of stock to be designated Common Stock; the total number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 1,000, and each such share shall have a par value of $0.01.

 

ARTICLE V
BOARD POWER REGARDING BYLAWS

 

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) is expressly authorized to make, adopt, repeal, alter, amend and rescind the bylaws of the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE VI
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

 

Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII
LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION

 

a)       A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. Any amendment, modification or repeal of the foregoing sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.

 

b)       Each director, officer and stockholder of the Corporation and each of their affiliates and each of their or their affiliates’ respective officers, members, equity holders, managers, partners, members, employees, personnel, independent contractors, representatives and agents (each, an “Indemnified Person”), shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be indemnified and held harmless, against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses to which such Indemnified Person may become subject in connection with any matter arising out of or in connection with the Corporation’s business or affairs (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA, excise taxes, or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in Article VII, Section (c) hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article VII shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a Proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VII or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.

 

c)       If a claim under Article VII, Section (b) is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty 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 expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible

 

 

 

under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standards of conduct set forth in the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standards of conduct.

 

d)       The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a Proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article VII shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or otherwise.

 

e)       The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise against any such expense, liability, or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability, or loss under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

ARTICLE VIII
CORPORATE POWER

 

The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred on stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.