UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): June 17, 2019

FLUENT, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-37893	77-0688094
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

300 Vesey Street, 9th Floor New York, New York	10282
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (646) 669-7272

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0005 par value per share	FLNT	The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On June 17, 2019, two subsidiaries of Fluent, Inc. (the "Company"), AdParlor Acquisition, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Fluent Media Canada, Inc., a British Columbia company (together with AdParlor Acquisition, LLC, each a "Buyer" and collectively "Buyers"), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with AdParlor Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("AdParlor Holdings"), AdParlor International, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("AdParlor International"), AdParlor Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("AdParlor Media US"), and AdParlor Media ULC, a British Columbia unlimited liability company (together with AdParlor Holdings, AdParlor International and AdParlor Media US, each a "Seller" and collectively "Sellers"), and v2 Ventures Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Sellers agreed to sell substantially all of their assets to Buyers.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Purchase Agreement, at the closing of the transaction, the Buyers agreed to (a) pay to Sellers $7,500,000 of cash at closing, and (b) issue a promissory note in the principal amount of $2,500,000, which promissory note will not accrue interest except in the case of default, is payable in two equal installments on the first and second anniversaries of the date of closing and is subject to setoff in respect of certain indemnity and other matters.

The completion of the transactions under the Purchase Agreement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including, among others, (i) receipt of all required third party consents, (ii) the absence of any injunction, restraining order or other order that prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the transactions, (iii) the absence of a material adverse effect with respect to Sellers, (iv) the acceptance of employment arrangements with Buyers by certain employees of Sellers, and (v) certain other customary conditions relating to the parties’ representations and warranties in the Purchase Agreement and the performance of their respective obligations.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement is only a summary, does not purport to be complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 and incorporated herein by reference. The Purchase Agreement contains representations and warranties by Buyers and Sellers with respect to matters as of specified dates. The representations and warranties: reflect negotiations between the parties to the Purchase Agreement and are not intended as statements of fact to be relied upon by the Company’s stockholders; in certain cases, merely represent risk-allocation decisions among the parties; have been modified or qualified by certain disclosure schedules that have been omitted in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission; may no longer be true as of a given date; and may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by stockholders. As such, the representations and warranties are solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and may be limited or modified by a variety of factors, including: subsequent events, information included in public filings, disclosures made during negotiations, correspondence between the parties and disclosure schedules to the Purchase Agreement. Accordingly, the representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs at the date they were made or at any other time and the Company’s stockholders should not rely on them as statements of fact. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may have changed after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On June 19, 2019, Fluent, Inc. issued a press release regarding the matters described in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K. The press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1. 

The information set forth in this Item 7.01, including the information set forth in Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Description
2.1	Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 17, 2019, by and among AdParlor Acquisition, LLC, Fluent Media Canada, Inc., AdParlor Holdings, Inc., AdParlor International, Inc., AdParlor Media, Inc., AdParlor Media ULC, and V2Ventures Group LLC.*
99.1	Press release, dated June 19, 2019

* Schedules (and similar attachments) to this exhibit have been omitted from this filing pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The registrant agrees to furnish a supplemental copy of any omitted schedule (or similar attachment) to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	Fluent, Inc.
June 19, 2019	By:	/s/ Ryan Schulke
	Name:	Ryan Schulke
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer