SCORES HOLDING CO INC - Annual Report: 2009 (Form 10-K)
U.S.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-K
(Mark
One)
x ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
Fiscal Year Ended: December 31, 2009
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REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
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transition period from _______________ to _______________
Commission
file number: 000─16665
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY, INC.
(Exact
name of small business issuer as specified in its charter)
Utah
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87-0426358
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(State
or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
or organization)
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(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
No.)
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533-535
West 27th
Street
New
York, NY
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10001
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant’s
telephone number: (212)
864-4900
Securities
registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act: None
Name of
each Exchange on Which Registered: None
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registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: Common Stock, $0.001 par
value
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Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
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As of
March 31, 2010, there were 165,186,124 shares of the registrant's common stock,
par value $0.001, issued and outstanding.
On June
30, 2009, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed
second fiscal quarter, 76,285,894 shares of its common stock, $0.001
par value per share (its only class of voting or non-voting common equity) were
held by non-affiliates of the registrant. The market value of those
shares was $1,907,147, based on the last sale price of $.025 per share of the
common stock on that date. Shares of common stock
held by each officer and director and by each shareowner affiliated with a
director have been excluded from this calculation because such persons may be
deemed to be affiliates. This determination of officer or affiliate status is
not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.
DOCUMENTS
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TABLE
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Item
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Forward-Looking
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PART
I
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1.
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Business
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1A.
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Risk
Factors
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2.
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Properties
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3.
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Legal
Proceedings
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4.
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Submission
Of Matters To A Vote Of Security Holders
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PART II |
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5.
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Market
For Common Equity And Related Stockholder Matters
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6.
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Selected
Financial Data
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7.
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Management’s
Discussion And Analysis Of Financial Condition And Results Of
Operations
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Financial
Statements And Supplemental Data
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9.
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Changes
In And Disagreements With Accountants On Accounting And Financial
Disclosure
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9A.[T]
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Controls
And Procedures
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9B.
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Other
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Directors,
Executive Officers And Corporate Governance
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11.
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Executive
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12.
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Security
Ownership Of Certain Beneficial Owners And Management
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Certain
Relationships And Related Transactions, And Director
Independence
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Item
14. Principal Accountant Fees And Services
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PART
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Exhibits
and Financial Statement Schedules
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FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS
Except
for historical information, this report contains forward-looking
statements. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, including, among other things, statements regarding our business
strategy, future revenues and anticipated costs and expenses. Such
forward-looking statements include, among others, those statements including the
words “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “believes” and similar
language. Our actual results may differ significantly from those
projected in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause
or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those
discussed in the sections “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business”. You are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date of this report. We undertake no obligation
to publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking statements or reflect
events or circumstances taking place after the date of this
document.
PART
I
ITEM
1. BUSINESS
Overview
Scores
Holding Company, Inc. (“Scores,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) was
incorporated in Utah on September 21, 1981 under the name Adonis Energy, Inc.
Since 2003, we have been in the business of licensing the “Scores” trademarks
and other intellectual property to gentlemen’s nightclubs with adult
entertainment in the United States. These clubs feature topless
female entertainers together with opportunities for watching sporting events and
corporate and private parties. There are four such clubs currently operating
under the Scores name, in New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, and New
Orleans.
Our
trademarks and copyrights surrounding the Scores trade name are critical to the
success and potential growth of our business. Our trademarks are held
by our wholly owned subsidiary, Scores Licensing Corp. (“SLC”).
History
and Development of our Business
On March
31, 2003, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Master License Agreement (the
“MLA”) by and between us and our former affiliate, Entertainment Management
Services, Inc. ("EMS"), an entity owned by two of our former directors and
employees, we granted EMS an exclusive, worldwide renewable 20 year license in
our property to sublicense the Scores trade name to nightclubs (the “Licensing
Rights”). Under the MLA, EMS was required to pay us 100% of the
royalties EMS received from the formerly affiliated clubs (defined below) and
50% of the royalties received from non-affiliated clubs (the “Royalty
Rights”). These clubs had license agreements with EMS pursuant to
which they typically paid EMS approximately 4.99% of their gross revenues from
operations, including the sale of merchandise. We depended on these royalties to
operate our business and as our principal source of revenue.
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On
January 27, 2009, (as further discussed below), we terminated the MLA with EMS
and EMS transferred to us all of the Licensing Rights and Royalty
Rights. Since termination of the MLA, our property is licensed
directly by us to the three remaining clubs that previously had been
sublicensing our property from EMS, and, thus, as of January 27, 2009, we are
receiving 100% of the royalty payments made by these clubs rather than the 50%
we were entitled to under the MLA.
Until
January 27, 2009, we were under common control with two previously existing
nightclubs in New York, New York (“Scores East” and “Scores West”) which were
owned, respectively, by 333 East 60th Street,
Inc. (“333”), and Go West Entertainment, Inc. (“Go West”). EMS is also owned by
333. Through EMS, we had sublicense agreements with each of Scores
East and Scores West pursuant to which they were entitled to use the Scores
intellectual property. (Throughout this report, we refer to Scores East and
Scores West as our “formerly affiliated clubs.” All other clubs with
the exception of our newly opened club in New York, Scores New York (see
discussion below), are referred to as non-affiliated clubs or as licensees (or
sublicensees, as applicable), a term that may include the formerly affiliated
clubs when the context requires.)
On
January 27, 2009, Mitchell’s East LLC, wholly owned by Robert M. Gans, acquired
a majority interest in our outstanding capital stock1. Mr.
Gans is the majority owner of I.M. Operating LLC (“IMO”). IMO has a
licensing agreement with us and has commenced operations in New York, New York
under the club name Scores New York. (Throughout this report, we
refer to Scores New York as our “affiliated club”)
Termination
of our Contract with EMS
On
January 27, 2009, following the execution of a transfer agreement dated December
9, 2008, the Company and EMS completed the transfer (the “Transfer”) from EMS to
us of all licensing and royalty rights originally granted to EMS under MLA1 and the MLA was
cancelled. Pursuant to the terms of the Assignment and Assumption
Agreement by and among EMS, 333 and us dated January 27, 2009 (the “Assignment
Agreement”), EMS assigned to us the Licensing Rights and the Royalty Rights
relating to the existing sublicensees, free and clear of any charges, liens or
other encumbrances. In consideration of these assignments, we credited 333 with
a $600,000 payment against a $1,220,475 unpaid royalty debt owed by 333 to us
(the “Debt”) and provided 333 with an acknowledgement that the Debt was
satisfied to the extent of the $600,000 payment. Additionally, as
part of the Transfer, we, EMS and 333 cancelled the MLA and terminated all of
the rights and obligations of the parties thereunder.
Change
in our Ownership
On
January 27, 2009, pursuant to a stock purchase agreement (the “SPA”), Mitchell’s
East LLC (“Buyer”), a New York limited liability company wholly owned by Robert
M. Gans, purchased an aggregate of 88,900,230 shares (the “Owned Shares”) of our
common stock beneficially owned by Richard Goldring and Elliot Osher
(collectively the “Share Sellers”), as well as any rights Harvey Osher (the
Share Sellers and Harvey Osher, together, the “Sellers”) may have in 13,886,059
shares of our common stock (the “Decedent Owned Shares”) currently held of
record by the estate of William Osher, deceased, and any rights the Sellers may
have in an additional 2,400,001 shares of our common stock (the “Expectancy
Shares”). Under the terms of the SPA, Harvey Osher is to deliver to
the Buyer the Decedent Owned Shares that he may receive and the Sellers are to
deliver to the Buyer any shares of the Company underlying the Expectancy Shares
that any such Seller may receive. Additionally, pursuant to the
SPA, each of the Sellers granted to Buyer an irrevocable proxy
enabling Buyer to act as his proxy with respect to any shares underlying
the Decedent Owned Shares and the Expectancy Shares, as applicable.
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As
further discussed in our Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) on February 2,
2009.
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The Owned
Shares represent approximately fifty four percent (54%) of our outstanding
capital stock and the Owned Shares together with the Decedent Owned Shares
represent approximately sixty two percent (62%) of our outstanding capital
stock.
Nightclubs
Currently Licensing our Scores Brand
In 2003,
EMS licensed the use of the "Scores Chicago" name to Stone Park Entertainment,
Inc. for its club in Chicago, Illinois. Royalties payable to EMS under this
license are the greater of $2,500 per week or 4.99% of the the Chicago club’s
gross revenues (less $25,000 per week) earned at that location. The Chicago club
accounted for 23% and 33% of our total royalty revenues during 2009 and 2008,
respectively.
In 2004,
EMS licensed the use of "Scores Baltimore" to Club 2000 Eastern Avenue, Inc. for
its nightclub in Baltimore, Maryland. Royalties payable to EMS under this
license are the greater of $1,000 per week or 4.99% of gross revenues. The
Baltimore club accounted for 27% and 25% of our total royalty revenues in 2009
and 2008, respectively.
In April
2007, EMS licensed the use of the Scores brand name to Silver Bourbon, Inc. for
a night club in New Orleans, Louisiana “Score New Orleans”. Royalties payable
under this license are capped at the greater of $4,000 per month or 4.99% of
gross revenues. The New Orleans club accounted for 10% of our total royalty
revenues during each of 2009 and 2008.
The
Assignment Agreement between us and EMS dated January 27, 2009, terminated the
MLA and, since that date, we have begun to retain 100% of the royalty payments
received from each of these clubs. This percentage includes the
50% which was previously retained by EMS under the MLA.
On
January 27, 2009, we entered into a licensing agreement with IMO for the use of
the Scores brand name “Scores New York”. IMO is owned in the majority
by Robert M. Gans who is also our majority shareholder. The address
where IMO’s new club is located is the same address as that of the former Scores
West nightclub, 533-535 West 27th Street, New York, NY (the “West 27th Street
Building”). Royalties payable to us under this license agreement have
been set at 3% of gross revenues of Scores New York. Scores New York
commenced operations in May 2009 and has accounted for 40% of our total royalty
revenue during 2009. The West 27th Street
Building is owned by Westside Realty of New York (“WSR”). Robert M. Gans is the
majority owner of WSR.
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Nightclubs
Formerly Licensing our Scores Brand
Scores
East was the first nightclub to sublicense our Scores brand through EMS. This
nightclub surrendered its liquor license in December 2008 and closed its
operations. Scores East accounted for 0% of our royalty revenue in
2008 and 2009. Our second sublicensed nightclub, Scores West, had its
liquor license revoked in 2008 and ceased operations. Scores West accounted for
0% of our royalty revenue in 2008 and 2009. On April 18, 2008, Go
West, the owner of Scores West, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. In
2008, we collected $14,788 and $35,928 in cash from Scores East and Scores West,
respectively. (See Item 6. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Bad Debt Expense.)
In July
2005, EMS licensed our Scores brand name to D.I. Food and Beverage (“DIF&B”)
for DIF&B’s nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada. Under this EMS sublicense
agreement, DIF&B paid EMS $9,000 per week in royalties and $1,500 per month
in related fees. This club accounted for 29% of our royalty revenue
in 2008 (and 0% in 2009). Following notice to EMS, DIF&B canceled
its sublicense with EMS effective May 6, 2008. DIF&B failed to
make its final royalty payments to EMS and we and EMS have begun legal action
against EMS to collect our fees due and related damages, as more fully discussed
below.
Scoreslive.com
On
January 24, 2006, we entered into a licensing agreement with AYA International,
Inc. (“AYA”) granting AYA the right to use our trademarks in connection with its
online video chat website, “Scoreslive.com.” EMS was not a party to
this license agreement. Our agreement with AYA provides for royalty
payments to be made directly to us at the rate of 4.99% of weekly gross revenues
from all revenue sources within the AYA website. The license continues for as
long as the website is operational. Scoreslive.com piloted in January 2007.
Because the Scoreslive.com website is still in the development stage, it has
accounted for a minimal amount of our total royalty revenues in 2009 and
2008. On December 21, 2009, AYA transferred all of its rights in
Scoreslive.com and in its licensing agreement with us to Swan Media Group, Inc.
(“SWG”), a newly formed New York corporation whose majority owner is Robert M.
Gans.
Competition
The adult
nightclub entertainment business is highly competitive with respect to price,
service, location and professionalism of its entertainment. Sublicensed clubs
will compete with many locally-owned adult nightclubs. It is our belief,
however, that only a few of these nightclubs have names that enjoy recognition
and status equal to the Scores brand. For example, there are approximately
twenty five (25) adult entertainment cabaret night clubs within the five
boroughs of New York City; approximately six upscale located in the borough of
Manhattan. We believe only three (Ricks Cabaret, Hustler and Penthouse) provide
the most competitive adult entertainment experience to that of our brand and our
New York affiliate. Other localities where our “Scores” brand is licensed have
similar competitive environments.
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We
believe the combination of our name recognition and our distinctive
entertainment environment allows our licensees to effectively compete within the
industry, although we cannot assure anyone that this will prove to be the
case. The success of our licensees depends upon their ability to
retain quality entertainers, employees and to provide customer service to their
customers. The inability to sustain quality entertainers, employees
and customer service could have a material or adverse impact on the ability of
our licensees to compete within the industry.
Competition
among online adult entertainment providers is intense in respect to both content
and subscribers’ capital. SWG’s competition for its Scoreslive.com
internet site varies in both the type and quality of offerings, but consists
primarily of other premium pay services. The availability of, and price pressure
from, more explicit content on the Internet, frequently offered for free, also
presents a significant competitive challenge to SWG. The Internet is
highly competitive, and Scoreslive.com will compete for visitors, subscribers,
shoppers and advertisers. We believe that the primary competitive factors
affecting SWG’s Internet operations include brand recognition, the quality of
content and products, pricing, ease of use and sales and marketing efforts. We
believe that SWG and Scoreslive.com have the advantage of leveraging the power
of our Scores brand across multiple media platforms.
Employees
At the
present time, we have one (1) employee who is not covered by any collective
bargaining agreement. We believe that our relationship with our current employee
is satisfactory.
Government
Regulation
Our
licensees are subject to a variety of governmental regulations depending upon
the laws of the jurisdictions in which they operate. The most significant
governmental regulations are described below.
Liquor
Licenses
Our
licensees are subject to state and local licensing regulation of the sale of
alcoholic beverages. We expect licensees to obtain and maintain appropriate
licenses allowing them to sell liquor, beer and wine. Obtaining a liquor license
may be a time consuming procedure. In New York, for example, a licensee must
make an application to the New York State Liquor Authority (the “NYSLA”) for a
liquor license regarding its proposed nightclub. The NYSLA has the authority, in
its discretion, to issue or deny such a license request. The NYSLA typically
requires local community board approval in connection with such grants. Approval
is usually granted or denied within 90-120 days from the initial application
date, but can take longer in certain circumstances. Other jurisdictions have
their own procedures.
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We cannot
offer any assurance that our licensees will obtain liquor licenses or that, once
obtained, they will maintain their liquor licenses or be able to assign or
transfer them if necessary. A license to sell alcoholic beverages in
many cases requires annual renewal and may be revoked or suspended for cause,
including any regulatory violation by the nightclub operating the license or its
employees. Royalties for our business could decrease, if one or more of our
licensees fails to maintain its liquor license.
"Cabaret"
Licenses
Although
not a requirement, our licensees typically request a cabaret license in
connection with the operation of their nightclubs. Cabaret licenses are not a
requirement in all states; however, some states mandate that such licenses be
obtained prior to the operation of an adult nightclub. For example, one of our
formerly affiliated licensees’, was granted a cabaret license for a nightclub by
the City of New York’s’ Department of Consumer Affairs (the "DCA"). In response,
the DCA determined that zoning requirements and that the building qualified for
operations in accordance with the codes and standards for a
nightclub. We believe our licensees comply with all regulatory laws
regarding cabaret or an adult entertainment license; however, there is no
assurance that any of their licenses will remain effective or that they could be
assigned or transferred if necessary. If one or more of our licensees failed to
maintain a required license, this could have a material or adverse effect on our
cash flow and profitability.
Zoning
Restrictions
Adult
entertainment establishments must comply with local zoning restrictions which
can be stringent. For example, zoning regulations in the City of New York
mandate that an adult entertainment business operates in an area zoned as
residential, or in areas that are commercially zoned, and devotes more than
either 40% or more of its space available to customers or 10,000 square feet for
adult entertainment activities. Although we expect our licensees to
operate within "zoned" areas, we cannot make any assurances that local zoning
regulations will remain constant, or that if changed, our licensees will be able
to continue operations under our Scores brand name trademark. If zoning
regulations were to restrict the operations of one or more of our licensees,
this could have a material or adverse effect on our cash flow and
profitability.
ITEM
1A. RISK FACTORS.
Not
applicable.
ITEM
2. PROPERTIES.
Beginning
July 1, 2004, we leased 2,400 square feet of office space on West 27th Street
in New York, New York, from Go West for our executive offices, paying $20,000
per month and offsetting this amount against royalties owed to the Company by Go
West. On March 1, 2007, the Company terminated the lease but continued to occupy
the office space. In July 2007, a $5,000 monthly credit was offset
from the outstanding royalty balance owed from our then Go West affiliate to
occupy 700 square feet of office space at the same location.
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As of
July 1, 2008, WSR, the owner of the West 27th Street
Building, became the new lessor of our 700 square feet office
occupancy. On April 1, 2009, the monthly rent, which includes
overhead cost, was reduced from $5,000 to $2,500.
ITEM
3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
On
January 14, 2010, we were named in a complaint filed with the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, County of New York (the “SCNY”) in connection with an
alleged assault on the plaintiff by an agent of our New York affiliated club. We
have not yet answered this complaint but will vigorously defend ourselves in
this litigation and do not expect that the outcome will be
material.
On June
23, 2009, we filed a complaint with the SCNY against Silver Bourbon, Inc., our
licensee in New Orleans and operator of Scores New Orleans, for breach of
contract. At the time of the filing, Silber Bourbon, Inc. owed us
$70,000 in unpaid royalties. Silver Bourbon, Inc. filed an answer
with the SCNY on October 12, 2009 and this matter is now in
discovery.
On
September 5, 2008, Ruth Fowler, a former cocktail waitress at Scores West, filed
a civil lawsuit against us in the Federal District Court for the Southern
District of New York (the “Court”). The plaintiff is seeking to
recover damages for alleged illegal deductions taken from her salary and monies
due her and for sexual harassment under the New York City and New York State
Human Rights Laws. On May 7, 2009, we filed a motion to dismiss the
action against us but that motion was denied by the Court with possible leave to
renew the motion at a future date after the completion of discovery
proceedings. In the meanwhile, counsel for plaintiff filed an amended
complaint on February 26, 2010 to add as additional parties to the action Go
West and EMS. On March 1, 2010, we filed affirmative defenses and an
amended response asserting cross-claims for judgment against both Go West and
EMS. The case has been placed in the hands of a magistrate judge and we have
served various discovery demands which have not been responded to as of yet by
counsel for the plaintiff. Although the outcome of this action is
uncertain, we believe that any outcome will not have a material effect on us,
since the plaintiff was only employed by Scores West for less than four
months.
In early
March 2008, we received notice that DIF&B, owner of the Las Vegas club,
would be canceling its sublicense with EMS effective on or before May 6, 2008.
We were notified that DIF&B would be making final royalty payments to EMS
totaling $60,000 at the rate of $10,000 per week starting the first week of
March 2008. The Las Vegas club ceased operating and, as of December 31, 2008,
EMS had received only one such $10,000 payment from DIF&B. EMS commenced an
action against DIF&B and filed a complaint and affidavit of service with the
SCNY, on July 23, 2008. DIF&B was required to file an answer by August 23,
2008, but did not do so. As a result, EMS filed an application for a default
judgment and the SCNY appointed a referee to determine damages. The referee
determined that damages in the amount of $216,000, with interest, should be paid
to EMS and a default judgment totaling $230,557 was entered by the Clerk of the
SCNY. We will attempt to collect on this judgment. We will
be entitled to all monies so collected, pursuant to the Assignment Agreement
with EMS and 333.
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On
December 11, 2007, Francis Vargas, a former cocktail waitress at Scores West
located in New York, NY, filed a civil lawsuit against us and Go West in the
SCNY, alleging violations of the New York State Human Rights Law, New York
Executive Law, New York City Human Rights Law, and the New York City
Administrative Code, based upon allegations of sexual discrimination and sexual
harassment. The lawsuit further alleges that at all material times both we and
Go West were employers of Ms. Vargas, the plaintiff. The law suit seeks
unspecified compensatory damages for plaintiff’s alleged loss of past and future
earnings and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation and loss of reputation.
We dispute that we were an employer of the plaintiff and categorically deny all
allegations of sexual discrimination and sexual harassment. We filed our
verified answer in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on February 12,
2008 to contest and defend against these accusations and we are currently
engaged in discovery. On April 18, 2008, co-defendant Go West filed for
bankruptcy and the case was stayed. On July 23, 2009, the bankruptcy
petition was dismissed and, as a result, the automatic stay has been
lifted.
On
October 9, 2007, former Go West bartender Siri Diaz filed a purported class
action and collective action on behalf of all tipped employees against us and
other defendants alleging violations of federal and state wage/hour laws (Siri Diaz
et al. v. Scores Holding Company, Inc.; Go West Entertainment, Inc. a/k/a Scores
West Side; and Scores Entertainment, Inc., a/k/a Scores East Side, Case
No. 07 Civ. 8718 (Southern District of New York (the “Court”), Judge Richard M.
Berman)). On November 6, 2007, plaintiffs served an amended purported class
action and collective action complaint, naming dancers and servers as additional
plaintiffs and alleging the same violations of federal and state wage/hour laws.
On or about February 21, 2008, plaintiffs served a second amended complaint
adding two additional party defendants, but limiting the action to persons
employed in the New York Scores’ clubs. The amended complaint alleged that we
and the other defendants are “an integrated enterprise” and that we jointly
employ the plaintiffs, subjecting all of the defendants to liability for the
alleged wage/hour violations. On behalf of ourselves and the other
defendants we filed a motion to dismiss that portion of the Complaint that
asserted State law class action allegations; we also moved to dismiss the claims
of two of the named plaintiffs for failure to appear for depositions. At the
same time plaintiffs moved for conditional certification under the federal law
for a class of the servers, bartenders and dancers; we opposed that motion. On
May 9, 2008, the Court issued its decision, denying the motion to dismiss and
granting conditional certification for a class of servers, cocktail waitresses,
bartenders and dancers who have worked at Scores East since October
2004. On May 29, 2008, we filed an answer to plaintiff's’ second
amended complaint. On or about September 5, 2009, plaintiffs served
their third amended complaint adding in two individual defendants who are
alleged to be employers under the state and federal wage claims. We
dispute that we are a proper defendant in this action and we dispute that
we violated the federal and state labor laws, and further dispute that the
dancers are “employees” subject to the federal and state wage and hour laws. We
intend to vigorously contest the claimed liability as well as the violations
alleged.
On March
30, 2007, we, along with several of our affiliates, were named in a suit in
connection with an alleged assault by an employee of an affiliate and one of our
stockholders and former officer and director. We have answered a third amended
complaint and participated in a Preliminary Conference to establish the
discovery schedule. Examinations before trial of the parties have been completed
and non-party depositions are now being taken. The plaintiff has not yet
undergone the required physical examination. We will vigorously defend ourselves
in this litigation and do not expect that the outcome will be
material.
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On March
31, 2006, Richard K. Goldring, our former president, chief executive officer and
principal shareholder pled guilty to one count of offering a False Instrument
for Filing in the First Degree pursuant to a plea agreement with the District
Attorney of the County of New York (the "DA"). In the event that within one year
of the date of the entry of the guilty plea, Mr. Goldring resigns from all
"control management positions" that he holds in publicly traded companies,
including ours, and divests himself of all "control ownership positions" in
publicly traded companies, including ours, and satisfies certain other
conditions, the DA will recommend a sentence of probation. In this context, a
“control management position” is a role, official or unofficial, by which he
substantially directs the decisions of a company, and a “control ownership
position” is a position in which he controls, directly or indirectly more than
9% of the voting stock or other securities of a company, or stock or securities
that have the capability of being converted into voting stock or other
securities of a company. The plea agreement resolved the DA's investigation
against Mr. Goldring and us. No charges were brought against us.
To comply
with the plea agreement between Richard Goldring and the District Attorney of
the County of New York, on September 4, 2008, Mr. Goldring transferred his
76,080,958 shares of our common stock (the “Goldring Shares”) to Ira Altchek as
trustee (the “Trustee”). According to the terms of the Voting Trust Agreement by
and between Mr. Goldring and the Trustee dated September 4, 2008, the Trustee
had the right to exercise all rights and powers of a shareholder of the Company
with respect to the Goldring Shares, including, without limitation, the sole and
exclusive right to vote the Goldring Shares, while Mr. Goldring maintained the
right to sell the Goldring Shares at any time. The Goldring Shares represented
approximately forty six percent (46%) of the outstanding capital stock of the
Company as of the December 31, 2008. On January 27, 2009, Mr.
Goldring sold all of the Goldring Shares in a private transaction with Buyer, as
further discussed above.
There are
no other material legal proceedings pending to which we or any of our property
are subject, nor to our knowledge are any such proceedings
threatened.
PART
II
MARKET
FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
Market
Information.
Our
common stock has been quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol “SCRH”
since 2004. The following table sets forth, for the fiscal quarters
indicated, the high and low closing bid prices per share of our common stock, as
derived from quotations provided by Pink OTC Markets Inc. Such quotations
reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission,
and may not represent actual transactions.
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Quarter Ended
|
High Bid
|
Low Bid
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March
31, 2008
|
.008 | .0033 | ||||||
June
30, 2008
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.01 | .003 | ||||||
September
30, 2008
|
.003 | .001 | ||||||
December
31, 2008
|
.0023 | .0011 | ||||||
March
31, 2009
|
.0035 | .0005 | ||||||
June
30, 2009
|
.025 | .0011 | ||||||
September
30, 2009
|
.035 | .019 | ||||||
December
31, 2009
|
.057 | .0125 | ||||||
March
31, 2010
|
.17 | .044 |
Holders
As of
March 31, 2010, there were approximately 580 record holders of our common
stock.
Dividends
We have
never declared any cash dividends with respect to our common
stock. Future payment of dividends is within the discretion of our
Board of Directors and will depend on our earnings, capital requirements,
financial condition and other relevant factors. Although there are no
material restrictions limiting, or that are likely to limit, our ability to pay
dividends on our common stock, we presently intend to retain future earnings, if
any, for use in our business and have no present intention to pay cash dividends
on our common stock.
Recent
Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.
Securities
Authorized For Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
None.
ITEM
6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA.
Not
applicable
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ITEM
7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS.
Results
of Operations:
For the
year ended December 31, 2009 (the “2009 period”) compared to the year ended
December 21, 2008 (the “2008 period”).
Revenues:
Revenues
increased to $387,425 for the 2009 period from $187,255 for the 2008
period. This increase was primarily due to the following
factors: In May 2009, our newly established New York affiliated club
commenced operations and revenues from this club amounted to $154,747 during the
2009 period. Our operations are dependent upon royalties from our New York
affiliated club which, in 2009, represented 40% of our total
revenue. We license our brand to innovative and experienced operators
who help sustain our brand by providing quality service to
customers. We believe the combination of the club services provided
by our existing operators and the opening of our newly established New York
affiliated club contributed to the increase in 2009 period revenues from our
Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans licensees. Revenues increased 41% to $87,320
in the 2009 period from $62,118 in the 2008 period for the Chicago club, 130% to
$105,358 in the 2009 period from $45,830 in the 2008 period for the Baltimore
club and 106% to $37,000 in the 2009 period from $18,000 in the 2008 period for
the New Orleans club.
Our Las
Vegas licensee sold its club in August 2008, revenues from this club amounted to
$54,000 during the 2008 period. During the 2008 and 2009 periods, we
did not record any royalty revenue from our former affiliated clubs (see Bad
Debt Expense below).
In
January 2007, the website, Scoreslive.com, began a developmental test launch of
its operations and, for the 2009 and 2008 periods, generated gross revenues of
approximately $5,000 per month resulting in minimal royalties to us. We believe
that the Scoreslive.com website will remain in development mode during 2010,
continuing to generate minimal revenues for us.
We
recognize revenues as they are earned, not as they are collected.
Bad Debt Expense
As of
December 31, 2009, Scores East and Scores West owed us (indirectly, through EMS)
$615,476 and $184,768, respectively, in accrued and unpaid
royalties. We have decided to write off these amounts based on the
NYSLA’s revocation of the Scores West liquor license and the subsequent
permanent closing of that club and the related Scores East surrender of its
liquor license and the permanent closing of that club. Additionally,
in connection with Go West’s construction of the Scores West club, we loaned Go
West $1,636,264 in exchange for a promissory note from Go West (the
“Note”). The Note has not been repaid and, as of December 31, 2009,
$1,867,310 (including accrued interest) remained due under the Note. As of
December 31, 2006, we reserved the entire $1,867,310, of the Note plus interest,
as a bad debt expense. We have forgone interest on the Note since
2007.
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Any cash
received from the owners of our formerly affiliated clubs (Scores East and
Scores West) has been applied as a reversal of the bad debt expense when
received. In 2008, we reversed bad debt expense in the amount of
$35,928 for cash collected from Scores West and $614,788 for cash collected from
Scores East. This later amount included $14,788 in cash and $600,000
deemed paid to EMS (owner of Scores East) in consideration of our repurchase
from EMS of all Licensing Rights and Royalty Rights under the MLA.
In
December 2008, the Company wrote off the $50,000 in royalties due from its Las
Vegas licensee. This write-off was the result of the sale of
the club by the operator in May 2008, which ceased operations shortly
thereafter.
Operating
Expenses:
Operating
expenses for the 2009 period and the 2008 period were $547,223 and $422,873
respectively. These expenses were directly related to the maintenance of the
corporate entity and regulatory filing of periodic reports under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). To comply with the requirements of
Sarbanes Oxley, we expect these regulatory costs to increase in future
years. Our business development and other executive
administrative costs increased by $253,350 during the 2009 period from the 2008
period, and may continue to increase in future periods due to expansion of our
brand into emerging markets. The Company incurred approximately $19,000 of
unforeseeable cost related to sales taxes during the 2009
period. Non-executive administrative costs related to accounting,
legal, trade shows, rents and payroll taxes decreased by $216,000 during the
2009 period from the 2008 period. These reductions were the result of
changes in management during the 2009 period over the 2008
period. Amortization expense increased $68,000 during the 2009
period from the 2008 period due to the repurchase from EMS of the
Licensing Rights and Royalty Rights under the MLA.
Provision
for Income Taxes:
The
provision for state income taxes relates primarily to average assets and capital
which were not impacted by net operating losses.
Net
Income (Loss) (per share):
Our net
loss for the 2009 period was $(158,362) or $(0.00) per share versus a net income
of $131,122 or $0.00 per share for the 2008 period. During the 2009
period, our $200,000 increase in revenues was offset by costs related to
business development, regulatory report preparation and filing, salaries, legal,
amortization and taxes, which approximated to $358,000. The change
from net income to a net (loss) from the 2008 period to the 2009 period can also
be attributed to the reversal of bad debt for Scores East in the amount of
$600,000, as a result of our repurchase from EMS of rights under the MLA and the
impairment loss in the amount of $281,216 during the 2008 period. We based this
impairment loss on the various adverse implications resulting from the permanent
closing of the Scores East and Scores West clubs.
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Net
income per share data for both the 2009 and 2008 periods is based on net income
available to common shareholders divided by the weighted average of the common
shares outstanding.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
At
December 31, 2009, we had $31,694 in cash and cash equivalents compared to $173
in cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2008.
On
February 28, 2007, our then President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and
majority stockholder, Richard Goldring resigned from each of his positions, and
terminated his employment with us. Under the terms of his employment
agreement dated March 31, 2003, we were obligated to pay Mr. Goldring a $1
million termination fee (the “Termination Fee”). Because of our lack of cash and
other business related reasons, we did not pay Mr. Goldring the Termination
Fee. On May 10, 2009 Mr. Goldring assigned his right, title and
interest in and to the Termination Fee to Robert M. Gans. As further
discussed below, we do not expect Mr. Gans to require from us payment of the
Termination Fee.
We have
incurred losses since the inception of our business. Since our inception, we
have been dependent on funding from private lenders and investors to conduct
operations. As of December 31, 2009 we had an accumulated deficit of
$(6,130,123). As of December 31, 2009, we had total current assets of $58,426
and total current liabilities of $230,674 or negative working capital of
$(172,248). As of December 31, 2008, we had total current assets of $14,018 and
total current liabilities of $155,808 or negative working capital of $(141,790).
The increase in the amount of negative working capital has been primarily
attributable to the increase in our related party activity which significantly
supported our operations. During the 2009 period, the Company
increased its cash position due to prepayments in royalties made by our
affiliated club in New York; however, due to our lack of cash, our New York
affiliated club covered many of our administrative cost related to regulatory
filings and corporate maintenance, which caused our short term related party
debt to exceed our current assets.
We
presently do not have any available credit, bank financing or other external
sources of liquidity to fund our operations. We will need to obtain
additional capital in order to meet our working needs and to continue to execute
our business plan, build our operations and become profitable. In order to
obtain capital, we may need to sell additional shares of our common stock or
debt securities, or borrow funds from private or institutional lenders. Because
of recent problems in the credit markets, steep stock market declines, financial
institution failures and government bail-outs, there can be no assurance that we
will be successful in obtaining additional funding in amounts or on terms
acceptable to us, if at all. If we are unable to raise additional
funding as necessary, we may have to suspend our operations temporarily or cease
operations entirely.
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We will
continue to evaluate possible acquisitions of or investments in businesses,
products and technologies that are complimentary to ours. These may require the
use of cash, which would also require us to seek financing. We may sell equity
or debt securities or seek credit facilities to fund acquisition-related or
other business costs. Sales of equity or convertible debt securities would
result in additional dilution to our stockholders. Our future
liquidity and capital requirements will depend upon numerous factors, including
the success of our adult entertainment licensing business.
Compliance
with Sarbanes-Oxley
The
amount of royalties owed to us from our formerly affiliated nightclubs, Scores
East and Scores West, and including our formerly affiliated nightclub in North
Miami, Florida, during 2008 totaled $816,905. Cash received as partial payment
on these receivables during the 2008 period amounted to $50,715. We received no
payments of principal or interest on the Note during these periods.
As we and
our formerly affiliated clubs and the North Miami club were under common control
until January 27, 2009, we are mindful that those royalties’ receivables could
have taken on the appearance of prohibited loans under Section 402 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We do not believe, however, that these receivables
were prohibited loans as we exercised our best commercial efforts to reduce the
amount due under these receivables.
Critical
Accounting Policies
The
discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are
based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make
estimates and judgments that affect the reported amount of assets and
liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure on contingent assets
and liabilities at the date of our financial at the date of our financial
statements. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different
assumptions and conditions.
Critical
accounting policies are defined as those that are reflective of significant
judgments and uncertainties, and potentially result in materially different
results under different assumptions and conditions. We believe that our critical
accounting policies are limited to those described below. For a detailed
discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies see note 2
to our consolidated financial statements.
Revenue
Recognition
Revenues
for the 2009 period and the 2008 period were derived predominately from
royalties. We apply judgment to ensure that the criteria for recognizing
revenues are consistently applied and achieved for all recognized sales
transactions.
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Long-Lived
Assets (including Tangible and Intangible Assets)
We
acquired the “Scores” trademark to market and conduct a global business
strategy. The determination of the value of such intangible assets requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect our consolidated
financial statements. We assess potential impairment to the intangible and
tangible assets on a quarterly basis or when evidence, events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be
recovered. Related costs affect the amount of future period amortization expense
and impairment expense that we incur and record as cost of sales. Our judgments
regarding the existence of impairment indicators and future cash flows related
to these assets are based on operational performance of our business, market
conditions and other factors. Future events could cause us conclude that
impairment indicators exist and that other tangible or intangible assets is
impaired.
Accounting
for Income Taxes
As part
of the process of preparing our consolidated financial statements we are
required to estimate our income taxes. Professional judgment is required by
management in estimating a provision for our deferred tax
asset. Because the Company consistently incurred net losses in
prior years, a valuation for the full deferred tax asset was recorded based on
carry forwards of such net operating losses. This was due to the
Company not demonstrating any consistent profitable operations. In the event
that the actual results differ from these estimates or we adjust these estimates
in future periods we may need to adjust such valuation recorded.
ITEM
8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA.
Our
audited consolidated financial statements as of, and for the years ended,
December 31, 2009 and 2008 are included beginning immediately following the
signature page to this report. See Item 15 for a list of the
financial statements included herein.
ITEM
9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE.
Not
applicable.
ITEM
9A.[T] CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
(a) Management’s Annual Report on
Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Management of Scores Holding
Company, Inc. is responsible for establishing and maintaining an adequate system
of internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rule
13a-15(f)). Under the supervision and with the participation of our
senior management, consisting of Curtis Smith, our acting chief executive
officer and chief financial officer, and Howard Rosenbluth, our Secretary, we
conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our
disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)
under the Exchange Act, as of the end of the period covered by this report (the
“Evaluation Date”). Based on this evaluation, our acting chief executive
officer, chief financial officer and secretary concluded, as of the Evaluation
Date, that our disclosure controls and procedures were not sufficiently
effective to ensure that the information relating to us required to be disclosed
in our Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) reports (i) is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC
rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to our management,
including our acting chief executive officer and chief financial officer and
secretary, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure. In particular, we concluded that internal control
weaknesses in our accounting policies and procedures relating to our segregation
of duties were material weaknesses.
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Our
internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes of accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States. Because of its
inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent
or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to
be effective can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their control
objectives. In evaluating the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting, management used the criteria set forth in the
framework in Internal Control—Integrated Framework and the Internal Control over
Financial Reporting – Guidance for Smaller Public Companies both issued by the
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(COSO).
A
material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal
control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility
that a material misstatement of the company's annual or interim financial
statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Our
management has identified the following material weaknesses.
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1.
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As
of December 31, 2009, we did not maintain effective internal controls over
financial reporting. For one, we did not have a functioning
audit committee due to a lack of a majority of independent directors on
our board of directors. This lack of a functioning audit
committee resulted in our having ineffective oversight in the
establishment and monitoring of required internal controls and procedures,
and management concluded that it constituted a material weakness in our
system of financial reporting.
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2.
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As
of December 31, 2009, we did not adequately segregate, or mitigate the
risks associated with, incompatible functions among personnel to reduce
the risk that a potential material misstatement of the financial
statements would occur without being prevented or detected. Accordingly,
management concluded that this control deficiency constituted a material
weakness.
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Based on
this evaluation and the material weaknesses identified, management concluded
that, as of December 31, 2009 our internal controls over financial reporting
were not effective, based on the criteria established in "Internal
Control-Integrated Framework" issued by the COSO.
Because
of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not
prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems
determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to
financial statement preparation and presentation.
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This
annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public
accounting firm regarding internal control over financial
reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our
registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC that
permit us to provide only management’s report in this annual
report.
(b) Changes in Internal Control over
Financial Reporting. There were no changes in our internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the last fiscal quarter of the period
covered by this report that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to
materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
ITEM
9B. OTHER INFORMATION.
On April
14th
2009, Elda Auerbach resigned from our Board of Directors. This
resignation did not result from any disagreement between Mrs. Auerbach and
us.
PART
III
ITEM
10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
Executive
Officers and Directors
The
following table sets forth certain information, as of March 31, 2010, with
respect to our directors and executive officers.
Directors
serve until the next annual meeting of the stockholders; until their successors
are elected or appointed and qualified, or until their prior resignation or
removal. Officers serve for such terms as determined by our Board of
Directors. Each officer holds office until such officer’s successor
is elected or appointed and qualified or until such officer’s earlier
resignation or removal. No family relationships exist between any of
our present directors and officers.
Name
|
Positions Held
|
Age
|
Date
of Election
or Appointment
as Director
|
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Martin
Gans
|
Director
|
74
|
June
23, 2009
|
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Howard
Rosenbluth
|
Secretary
and Director
|
63
|
April
21, 2009
|
|||
Curtis
R. Smith
|
Chief
Financial Officer, Acting Chief Executive Officer and
Director
|
40
|
September
26, 2006
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The
following is a brief account of the business experience during the past five
years or more of our directors and executive officer.
Mr. Gans
has been retired since 2002. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Gans held
managerial positions with The Nassau County Board of Elections, from 1994 to
2002, and with the Metropolitan New York hospitals, from 1990 to
1994. Mr. Gans has a MBA in Health Care Administration from George
Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hunter
College. Mr. Gans served in the United States Army where he reached
the rank of SP4.
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Over the
past five years, Mr. Rosenbluth has been an executive officer overseeing the
financial operations for Metropolitan Lumber Hardware and Building Supplies,
Inc., and The Executive Club LLC, a company operating in the
Gentlemen’s' club industry. Mr. Rosenbluth received an MBA in
Finance in 1975 from the University of Connecticut and has owned a consulting
firm, a manufacturing company and a restaurant and has worked in public
accounting and consulting for more than 35 years.
Mr. Smith
has served as our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since September 2006. Mr. Smith
has been our Acting Chief Executive Officer since June 2007. Prior to
serving as our CFO, he served as our controller for one year. Prior to joining
the Company, Mr. Smith worked in public accounting for more than 10 years and
has a background in performing SEC audits and assisting in mergers and
acquisitions for public companies. Mr. Smith earned his Bachelor’s degree in
Science from Syracuse University and has been Certified Public Accountant since
1996.
Board
of Directors
None of
our directors receives any remuneration for acting as such. Directors
may, however, be reimbursed for their out-of-pocket expenses, if any, for
attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors. Our Board of
Directors may designate from among its members an executive committee and one or
more other committees. No such committees has been established to
date. Accordingly, we do not have an audit committee or an audit
committee financial expert. Similarly, we do not have a nominating
committee or a committee performing similar functions. We have not
implemented procedures by which our security holders may recommend board
nominees to us, but expect to do so in the future.
Compliance
with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act
Section
16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our executive officers and directors and
persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities, to
file with the SEC initial statements of beneficial ownership on Form 3, reports
of changes in ownership on Form 4 and annual reports concerning their ownership
on Form 5. Executive officers, directors and greater than 10% stockholders are
required by the SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a)
reports they file.
To the
best of our knowledge, during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, two of
our directors, Howard Rosenbluth and Martin Gans, failed to file a required
report on Form 3 in a timely manner.
Director
Independence
We are
not subject to listing requirements of any national securities exchange or
inter-dealer quotation system which has requirements that a majority of the
Board of Directors be “independent” and, as a result, we are not at this time
required to have our Board of Directors comprised of a majority of “Independent
Directors.”
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Code
of Ethics
Due to
the scope of our current operations, as of December 31, 2009, we have not
adopted a code of ethics for financial executives, which include our principal
executive officer, Chief Financial Officer or persons performing similar
functions. Our decision to not adopt such a code of ethics results from our
having only a limited number of officers and directors operating as management.
We believe that as a result of the limited interaction which occurs having such
a small management structure eliminates the current need for such a
code.
ITEM
11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.
The
following table sets forth information concerning the total compensation paid or
accrued by us during the two fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 to
(i) all individuals that served as our chief executive officer or acted in
a similar capacity for us at any time during the fiscal year ended December 31,
2009 and (ii) all individuals that served as executive officers of ours at
any time during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 that received annual
compensation during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 in excess of
$100,000.
Summary
Compensation Table
Name
and Principal Position
|
Year
|
Salary
($)
|
Bonus
($)
|
Stock
Awards
($)
|
Option
Awards
($)
|
Non-
Equity Incentive Plan Compensation
($)
|
Change
in Pension Value and Non- qualified Deferred Compensation Earnings
Compensation
($)
|
All
Other
($)
|
Total
($)
|
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
|
(e)
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(f)
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(g)
|
(h)
|
(i)
|
(j)
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Curtis
Smith,
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2009
|
105,731 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105,731 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Acting Chief
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2008
|
79,015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79,015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Executive Officer,
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Chief Financial
Officer
(1)
|
(1)
|
Curtis
Smith became our Chief Financial Officer on September 26, 2006 and Acting
Chief Executive Officer on June 25,
2007.
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The terms
of Mr. Smith’s employment agreement with us are contractor based and are
reviewed every year subject to Board approval.
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To
present, we have not maintained any stock option or other incentive plans since
our inception. We have no plans in place and have never maintained
any plans that provide for the payment of retirement benefits or benefits that
will be paid primarily following retirement including, but not limited to, tax
qualified deferred benefit plans, supplemental executive retirement plans,
tax-qualified deferred contribution plans and nonqualified deferred contribution
plans. Similarly, we have no contracts, agreements, plans or
arrangements, whether written or unwritten, that provide for payments to the
named executive officers or any other persons following, or in connection with
the resignation, retirement or other termination of a named executive officer,
or a change in control of us or a change in a named executive officer’s
responsibilities following a change in control.
Compensation
of Directors
None of
our directors receives any compensation for serving as such, for serving on
committees of the Board of Directors or for special
assignments. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008
there were no other arrangements between us and our directors that resulted in
our making payments to any of our directors for any services provided to us by
them as directors.
ITEM
12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND
MANAGEMENT.
The
following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership
of our common stock known by us as of March 31, 2010 by
·
each
person or entity known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our
common stock,
·
each of
our directors,
·
each of
our executive officers, and
·
all
of our directors and executive officers as a group.
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The
percentages in the table have been calculated on the basis of treating as
outstanding for a particular person, all shares of our common stock outstanding
on such date and all shares of our common stock issuable to such holder in the
event of exercise of outstanding options, warrants, rights or conversion
privileges owned by such person at said date which are exercisable within
60 days of such date. Except as otherwise indicated, the persons
listed below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of
our common stock owned by them, except to the extent such power may be shared
with a spouse. The addresses for our executive officers and directors are c/o
Scores Holding Company, Inc., 533-535 West 27th Street,
New York, NY 10001.
Name
and Address
of Beneficial Owner
|
Title of Class
|
Amount
and Nature
of
Beneficial Ownership
|
Percent
of
Class (1)
|
||||
Curtis
Smith
|
Common
Stock
|
- 0
-
|
0.0%
|
||||
Howard
Rosenbluth
|
Common
Stock
|
- 0
-
|
|
0.0%
|
|||
Martin
Gans
|
Common
Stock
|
- 0
-
|
0.0%
|
||||
All
directors and executive
officers
as a group (2 persons)
|
Common
Stock
|
- 0
-
|
0.0%
|
||||
|
|||||||
Mitchell’s
East LLC (2)
617
Eleventh Avenue
New
York, NY 10036
|
Common
Stock
|
88,900,230
|
53.8%
|
||||
|
|||||||
Estate
of William Osher (3)
2955
Shell Road
Brooklyn,
NY 11224
|
Common
Stock
|
13,886,059
|
8.4%
|
(1)
|
Based
upon 165,186,124 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as at March
31, 2010.
|
(2)
|
Robert
M. Gans is the sole owner of Mitchell’s East LLC. The principal
business address of Mr. Gans is 617 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY
10036. Does not include 13,886,059 shares of Common Stock
currently held of record by William Osher, deceased, of which Harvey Osher
(“H. Osher”) claims title and which. H. Osher has agreed to transfer to
Mitchell’s East LLC pursuant to the
SPA.
|
(3)
|
William
Osher passed away in August, 2007. H. Osher claims all right
and title to and interest in these shares of Common Stock and has agreed
to transfer them to Mitchell’s East LLC pursuant to the Stock Purchase
Agreement.
|
Changes
in Control
Not
Applicable.
Securities
Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
We do not
presently maintain any equity compensation plans and have not maintained any
such plans since our inception.
ITEM
13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE.
Until
January 27, 2009, Richard Goldring owned approximately 46% of our outstanding
common stock. On January 27, 2009, he sold all of his shares to
Buyer, owned by Robert M. Gans. Elliot Osher owned approximately 8.8%
of our common stock until January 27, 2009 when he sold all of his shares to
Buyer. The estate of William Osher currently owns
approximately 8.8% of our common stock. Harvey Osher claims
ownership of those shares and, as discussed above, has agreed to transfer them
to Buyer.
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EMS,
333 and Go West
EMS is
one third owned by each of Richard Goldring, Elliot Osher and Harvey Osher.
Under the MLA and until its termination on January 31, 2009, EMS was required to
pay us 100% of the royalties received from the formerly affiliated clubs and 50%
of the royalties received from non-affiliated clubs. .
333, the
operator of Scores East, is two-thirds owned by Richard Goldring and one-third
owned by Elliot Osher. Royalties owed to us by EMS relating to the
Scores East sublicense at December 31, 2008 amounted to $615,478. These
royalties were foregone by us due to matters resulting in the Scores East
surrender of its liquor license and related the closing of the Scores East
club.
During
the 2008 period, we received approximately $146,682 in cash royalties from our
Chicago non-affiliated club. Pursuant to the MLA, we were obligated
to remit these payments to EMS; however, to help cover our shortfalls in cash,
we defaulted on this obligation and retained these royalties. In
December 2008, we applied the $146,682 balance due EMS towards the outstanding
royalties owed by Scores East as a result of the Transfer and related Assignment
Agreement.
Two
thirds of Go West is owned by Richard Goldring and one third by Elliot
Osher. Royalties earned during the 2008 period were foregone by us
due to matters which led to the revocation in 2008 of the Scores West liquor
license by the NYSLA and the subsequent closing of that club.
Obligations
to Richard Goldring and Robert M. Gans
On
February 28, 2007, our then President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and
majority stockholder, Richard Goldring, resigned from each of his positions, and
terminated his employment with us. Under the terms of his employment
agreement dated March 31, 2003, we were obligated to pay Mr. Goldring a $1
million Termination Fee. Because of our lack of cash and other business related
reasons, we did not pay Mr. Goldring the Termination Fee. On May 10,
2009 Mr. Goldring assigned his right, title and interest in and to the
Termination Fee to Robert M. Gans. On August 3, 2009, we filed with
the SCNY an Affidavit of Confession of Judgment acknowledging that we owe Mr.
Gans the Termination Fee along with prejudgment interest at the rate of nine
percent (9%) per annum running from February 28, 2009 through August 3, 2009
(this interest together with the Termination Fee, the “Settlement
Amount”). Also on August 3, 2009, we, SLC and Mr. Gans entered into a
trademark security agreement pursuant to which we and SLC granted Mr. Gans a
first priority security interest in all of our trademark rights as security for
the timely and complete payment to Mr. Gans of the Settlement
Amount. We do not expect, however, Mr. Gans to require from us
payment of the Settlement Amount.
Executive
Offices
Since
July 2007, we have been renting 700 square feet of office space in the West
27th
Street Building. In payment for this space, we credited Go West
with a $5,000 per month offset against the outstanding royalty balance due to us
by Go West. As of July 1, 2008, WSR, majority owned by Robert M.
Gans, became the owner of the West 27th Street
Building and our landlord. Beginning April 1, 2009, our monthly
rent was reduced to $2,500, on a month to month basis, including overhead
costs.
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Go
West Construction Loan
In
consideration of payments made by us on behalf of Go West for construction of
Scores West, on March 31, 2003, Go West issued to us the Note. The
Note was a five year promissory note for $1,636,264.08 which bore simple
interest at a rate of 7% per year and was scheduled for maturity on October 1,
2008. Go West is in default under the Note. As of December 31, 2008, Go West
owed us $1,867,310 under the Note, which includes $355,189 in accrued and unpaid
interest. During the 2008 period $0 were paid in principal and interest on the
Note, respectively. At the time, Go West’s primary asset was a 20-year lease on
the West 27th Street
Building where it built its nightclub, Scores West. The Note
was secured by Go West’s leasehold interest in the West 27th Street
Building. Go West has since relinquished its leasehold in the West 27th Street
Building to WSR and we do not expect to collect on the Loan.
Director
Independence
Our Board
of Directors has considered the independence of its directors in reference to
the definition of “independent director” established by the Nasdaq Marketplace
Rule 5605(a)(2). In doing so, the Board has reviewed all commercial
and other relationships of each director in making its determination as to the
independence of its directors. After such review, the Board has
determined that Mr. Rosenbluth qualifies as independent under the requirements
of the Nasdaq listing standards.
ITEM
14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.
Audit
Fees.
The
aggregate fees billed to us by our principal accountant for services rendered
during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 are set forth in the
table below:
Fee
Category
|
Fiscal
year ended
December
31,
2009
|
Fiscal
year ended
December
31,
2008
|
||||||
Audit
fees (1)
|
$ | 20,000 | $ | 20,000 | ||||
Audit-related
fees (2)
|
12,000 | 12,000 | ||||||
Tax
fees (3)
|
3,000 | 3,000 | ||||||
All
other fees (4)
|
- | - | ||||||
Total
fees
|
$ | 35,000 | $ | 35,000 |
(1)
|
Audit
fees consists of fees incurred for professional services rendered for the
audit of consolidated financial statements, for reviews of our interim
consolidated financial statements included in our quarterly reports on
Form 10-Q and for services that are normally provided in connection with
statutory or regulatory filings or
engagements.
|
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(2)
|
Audit-related
fees consist of fees billed for professional services that are reasonably
related to the performance of the audit or review of our consolidated
financial statements, but are not reported under “Audit
fees.”
|
(3)
|
Tax
fees consist of fees billed for professional services relating to tax
compliance, tax planning, and tax
advice.
|
(4)
|
All
other fees consist of fees billed for all other
services.
|
Audit Committee’s
Pre-Approval Practice.
Inasmuch
as we do not have an audit committee, our Board of Directors performs the
functions of an audit committee. Section 10A(i) of the Exchange
prohibits our auditors from performing audit services for us as well as any
services not considered to be “audit services” unless such services are
pre-approved by the Board of Directors (in lieu of the audit committee) or
unless the services meet certain de-minims standards.
All audit
services were approved by our Board of Directors.
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PART
IV
ITEM
15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Financial
Statement Schedules
The
consolidated financial statements of Scores Holding Company, Inc. are listed on
the Index to Financial Statements on this annual report on Form 10-K beginning
on page F-1.
All
financial statement schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the
required information is shown in the financial statements or notes
thereto.
Exhibits
The
following Exhibits are being filed with this Annual Report on Form
10-K:
Exhibit
No.
|
SEC
Report
Reference
Number
|
Description
|
||
10.1
|
10.20
|
Stock
Option Agreement dated October 22, 2002 between the Registrant and Richard
Goldring (1)
|
||
10.2
|
10.21
|
Stock
Option Agreement dated October 22, 2002 between the Registrant and Elda
Auerback (1)
|
||
10.3
|
10.28
|
Sublicense
Agreement, dated June 13, 2003, between Entertainment Management Services,
Inc. and Stone Park Entertainment
(2)
|
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Exhibit
No.
|
SEC
Report
Reference
Number
|
Description
|
||
10.4
|
10.29
|
Sublicense
Agreement, dated February 27, 2004, between Entertainment Management
Services, Inc. and Club 2000 Eastern Avenue, Inc. (2)
|
||
10.5
|
10.38
|
Sublicense
Agreement, dated January 24, 2006, between the
Registrant and AYA Entertainment, Inc.
(3)
|
||
10.6
|
10.42
|
Sublicense
Agreement, dated April 2, 2007, between Entertainment Management Services,
Inc. and Silver Bourbon, Inc. (3)
|
10.7
|
10.1
|
Transfer
Agreement by and among the Registrant, 333 East 60th
Street Inc. (“333”) and Entertainment Management Services, Inc. (“EMS”)
dated as of December 9, 2008 (4)
|
||
10.8
|
10.2
|
Cancellation
Agreement by and among the Registrant and EMS dated as of January 27, 2009
(4)
|
||
10.9
|
10.3
|
Assignment
and Assumption Agreement by and among the Registrant, 333 and EMS dated as
of January 27, 2009 (4)
|
||
10.10
|
10.47
|
License
Agreement, dated January 27, 2009, between the Registrant and I.M.
Operating LLC (5)
|
||
21
|
21
|
Subsidiaries
- As of March 31, 2009, we had one subsidiary: Scores Licensing
Corp.
|
||
31.1/31.2
|
*
|
Certification
of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, pursuant
to SEC Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), adopted pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
|
||
32.1/32.2
|
*
|
Certification
of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002**
|
* filed
herewith.
** This
certification is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” with the SEC
for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the
liability of that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by
reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except
to the extent that the Registrant specifically incorporates it by
reference.
(1)
|
Filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23, 2003 as an
exhibit, numbered as indicated above, to the Registrant’s Annual Report on
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2002, which exhibit is
incorporated herein by reference.
|
(2)
|
Filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2005 as an
exhibit, numbered as indicated above, to the Registrant’s Annual Report on
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004, which exhibit is
incorporated herein by reference.
|
(3)
|
Filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2007 as an exhibit,
numbered as indicated above, to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form
10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2006, which exhibit is incorporated
herein by reference.
|
(4)
|
Filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 2, 2009 as an
exhibit, numbered as indicated above, to the Registrant’s Current
Report on Form 8-K dated February 2, 2009, which exhibit is
incorporated herein by reference.
|
(5)
|
Filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2009 as an
exhibit, numbered as indicated above, to the Registrant’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, which exhibit is
incorporated herein by reference.
|
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In
reviewing the agreements included or incorporated by reference as exhibits to
this Annual Report on Form 10-K, please remember that they are included to
provide you with information regarding their terms and are not intended to
provide any other factual or disclosure information about the Company or the
other parties to the agreements. The agreements may contain representations and
warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These
representations and warranties have been made solely for the benefit of the
parties to the applicable agreement and:
•
|
should
not in all instances be treated as categorical statements of fact, but
rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those
statements prove to be
inaccurate;
|
•
|
have
been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other party in
connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement, which
disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the
agreement;
|
•
|
may
apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be
viewed as material to you or other investors;
and
|
•
|
were
made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or
dates as may be specified in the agreement and are subject to more recent
developments.
|
Accordingly,
these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of
affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time. Additional
information about the Company may be found elsewhere in this Annual Report on
Form 10-K and the Company’s other public filings, which are available without
charge through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SCORES HOLDING COMPANY, INC. | |||
Date: April
15, 2010
|
By:
|
/s/ Curtis R. Smith | |
Curtis R. Smith | |||
Acting Chief Executive Officer and | |||
Chief Financial Officer |
In
accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the
following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.
SIGNATURE
|
TITLE
|
DATE
|
||
/s/ Curtis R.
Smith
|
Director
|
April
15, 2010
|
||
Curtis
R. Smith
|
||||
/s/
Howard
Rosenbluth
|
Director
|
April
15, 2010
|
||
Howard
Rosenbluth
|
||||
/s/
Martin
Gans
|
Director
|
April
15, 2010
|
||
Martin
Gans
|
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PART IV –
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Index to
Consolidated Financial Statements
Page
|
||
Report
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
|
F-2
|
|
|
||
Consolidated
Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2009 and December 31,
2008
|
F-3
|
|
|
||
Consolidated
Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2009 and
December 31, 2008
|
F-4
|
|
|
||
Consolidated
Statement of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2009
and December 31, 2008..
|
F-5
|
|
|
||
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2009 and
December 31, 2008
|
F-6
|
|
|
||
Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements
|
F-7
|
F-1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT
REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the
Board of Directors and Shareholders
Scores
Holding Company, Inc. and subsidiaries
We have
audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Scores Holding Company,
Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and the related
consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for
each of the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008. These financial statements
are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on these financial statements based on our
audits.
We
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating principles used
and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our
opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly,
in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Scores Holding
Company, Inc. as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and the results of its
operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the years ended
December 31, 2009 and 2008, in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States.
The
accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that Scores
Holding Company, Inc. will continue as a going concern. As more fully described
in Note 2, the Company has a working capital deficit as of December 31,
2009. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s
ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these
matters are also described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include
any adjustments to reflect the possible effects on the recoverability and
classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that
may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
/s/ Sherb
& Co., LLP
Certified
Public Accountants
New York,
New York
April 13,
2010
F-2
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED
BALANCE SHEETS
December
31,
2009
|
December
31,
2008
|
|||||||
ASSETS
|
||||||||
CURRENT
ASSETS:
|
||||||||
Cash
|
$ | 31,694 | $ | 173 | ||||
Licensee
receivable – including affiliates - net
|
26,732 | 13,845 | ||||||
Total
Current Assets
|
58,426 | 14,018 | ||||||
INTANGIBLE
ASSETS, NET
|
205,428 | 333,332 | ||||||
$ | 263,854 | $ | 347,350 | |||||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
|
||||||||
CURRENT
LIABILITIES:
|
||||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
|
$ | 22,091 | $ | 98,826 | ||||
Bank
overdraft
|
— | 20,982 | ||||||
Related
party payable
|
208,583 | 36,000 | ||||||
Total
Current Liabilities
|
230,674 | 155,808 | ||||||
STOCKHOLDERS'
EQUITY
|
||||||||
Preferred
stock, $.0001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, -0- issued and
outstanding
|
— | — | ||||||
Common
stock, $.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized, 165,186,124 and
165,186,124 issued and outstanding, respectively
|
165,186 | 165,186 | ||||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
5,998,117 | 5,998,117 | ||||||
Accumulated
deficit
|
(6,130,123 | ) | (5,971,761 | ) | ||||
Total
Stockholders’ equity
|
33,180 | 191,542 | ||||||
$ | 263,854 | $ | 347,350 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
F-3
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Year
Ended December 31,
|
||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
REVENUE
|
||||||||
Royalty
|
$ | 387,425 | $ | 186,880 | ||||
Merchandise
|
— | 375 | ||||||
Total
|
387,425 | 187,255 | ||||||
COST
OF MERCHANDISE SOLD
|
— | 21,559 | ||||||
GROSS
PROFIT
|
387,425 | 165,696 | ||||||
GENERAL
AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
|
547,223 | 422,873 | ||||||
LOSS
ON IMPAIRMENT OF INTANGIBLE
|
— | 281,216 | ||||||
DEBT
FORGIVENESS – (RELATED PARTY)
|
(6,000 | ) | — | |||||
DEBT
FORGIVENESS – (UNRELATED PARTY)
|
(25,436 | ) | — | |||||
BAD
DEBT EXPENSE (RECOVERY)
|
30,000 | (669,515 | ) | |||||
INCOME
(LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS
|
(158,362 | ) | 131,122 | |||||
INCOME
(LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES
|
(158,362 | ) | 131,122 | |||||
PROVISION
FOR INCOME TAXES
|
— | — | ||||||
NET
INCOME (LOSS)
|
$ | (158,362 | ) | $ | 131,122 | |||
NET
INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE BASIC and DILUTED
|
$ | (0.00 | ) | $ | 0.00 | |||
WEIGHTED
AVERAGE OF COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING – BASIC and DILUTED
|
165,186,124 | 165,186,124 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
F-4
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
|
Common
Stock
|
Additional
Paid
in
|
Accumulated
|
Total
Stockholders
|
|||||||||||||||||
Shares
|
Amount
|
Capital
|
Deficit
|
Equity
|
||||||||||||||||
Balance
as of December 31, 2007
|
165,186,124 | $ | 165,186 | $ | 5,998,117 | $ | (6,102,883 | ) | $ | 60,420 | ||||||||||
Net
income
|
131,122 | 131,122 | ||||||||||||||||||
Balance
as of December 31, 2008
|
165,186,124 | 165,186 | 5,998,117 | (5,971,761 | ) | 191,542 | ||||||||||||||
Net
loss
|
(158,362 | ) | (158,362 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Balance
as of December 31, 2009
|
165,186,124 | $ | 165,186 | $ | 5,998,117 | $ | (6,130,123 | ) | $ | 33,180 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
F-5
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
December
31,
2009
|
December
31,
2008
|
|||||||
CASH
FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
|
||||||||
Net
income (loss)
|
$ | (158,362 | ) | $ | 131,122 | |||
Adjustments
to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used) in operating
activities:
|
||||||||
Amortization
|
127,904 | 59,720 | ||||||
Loss
on impairment of intangible
|
— | 281,216 | ||||||
Bad
debt expense (recovery)
|
30,000 | (453,318 | ) | |||||
Debt
forgiveness
|
(31,436 | ) | — | |||||
Changes
in Assets and Liabilities:
|
||||||||
Licensee
receivable
|
(42,887 | ) | 11,372 | |||||
Prepaid
expenses
|
— | 1,123 | ||||||
Inventory
|
— | 20,700 | ||||||
Due
to EMS
|
(44,978 | ) | ||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
|
(51,299 | ) | (24,139 | ) | ||||
NET
CASH PROVIDED BY (USED) IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES
|
(126,080 | ) | (17,182 | ) | ||||
CASH
PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
|
||||||||
Related
party payable
|
178,583 | 16,200 | ||||||
Repayment
of notes payable
|
— | (20,000 | ) | |||||
Bank
overdraft
|
(20,982 | ) | 20,982 | |||||
NET
CASH PROVIDED BY (USED) IN FINANCING ACTIVITIES
|
157,601 | 17,182 | ||||||
NET
INCREASE IN CASH
|
31,521 | — | ||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning of the year
|
173 | 173 | ||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, end of the year
|
$ | 31,694 | $ | 173 | ||||
Supplemental
disclosures of cash flow information:
|
||||||||
Cash
paid during the year for interest
|
$ | — | $ | — | ||||
Cash
paid during the year for taxes
|
$ | — | $ | 3,625 |
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.
F-6
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
Note
1. Organization
Scores
Holding Company, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) is a Utah corporation,
formed in September 1981 and is located in New York, NY. Formerly, Internet
Advisory Corporation, the Company is a licensing company that exploits the
“Scores” name and trademark for franchising and other licensing
options.
The
consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
The consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of
Scores Licensing Corp.
Note
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Principles
BASIS OF
PRESENTATION - Going Concern
The
Company has incurred cumulative losses totaling $(6,130,123), a working capital
deficit of $(172,248) and a net operating loss of ($158,362) at December 31,
2009. Because of these conditions, the Company will require
additional working capital to develop business operations. The Company intends
to raise additional working capital through the continued licensing of the brand
with its current and new operators and to take on operations in larger cities
with greater demand for our product through acquisitions. There
are no assurances that the Company will be able to achieve the level of revenues
adequate to generate sufficient cash flow from operations to support the
Company’s working capital requirements. To the extent that funds generated from
any future use of licensing, are insufficient, the Company will have to raise
additional working capital. No assurance can be given that additional financing
will be available, or if available, will be on terms acceptable to the
Company. If adequate working capital is not available, the
Company may not increase its operations.
These
conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a
going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating
to the recoverability and classification of asset carrying amounts or the amount
and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be
unable to continue as a going concern.
Principles
of consolidation
The
consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its
wholly-owned subsidiaries. Inter-company items and transactions have been
eliminated in consolidation.
F-7
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
Cash and
cash equivalents
The
Company considers all highly liquid temporary cash investments, with a maturity
of three months or less when purchased, to be cash equivalents. There
are times when cash may exceed $250,000, the FDIC insured limit.
Accounting
for Long-Lived Assets
The
Company reviews long-lived assets, certain identifiable assets and any goodwill
related to those assets for impairment whenever circumstances and situations
change such that there is an indication that the carrying amounts may not be
recoverable. The Company did not record an impairment loss during the year ended
December 31, 2009; however, the Company believed that the carrying amount of the
“Scores” trademark exceeded its fair or net present value and has recognized an
impairment loss in the amount of $281,216 for the year ended December 31,
2008. This impairment was based on the various adverse chains of
events and circumstances regarding the loss of our Scores East and Scores West
clubs.
Fair
Value of Financial Instruments
The
Company follows the provisions of ASC 820-10, Fair Value Measurements which
defines fair values, establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and
expands disclosures about fair value measurements. The Company’s financial
instruments include licensee receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and
related party payable. Due to the short term maturity of these financial
instruments, the fair values were not materially different from their carrying
values
Licensee
receivable and reserves
Accounts
deemed uncollectible are applied against the allowance for doubtful
accounts. Allowance for doubtful accounts had a balance of
$14,000 and $2,745,084 for the December 31, 2009 and 2008 periods. In
reviewing any delinquent royalty or note receivable, the Company considers many
factors in estimating its reserve, including historical data, experience,
customer types, credit worthiness, financial distress and economic trends. From
time to time, the Company may adjust its assumptions for anticipated changes in
any of above or other factors expected to affect collectability. The
$14,000 outstanding reserve balance is related to our New Orleans
licensee. During the 2009 and 2008 periods, cash collected from New
Orleans amounted to $25,000 and $18,000 respectively.
Subsequent
to year end 2006, our former East and Westside affiliates had undergone
financial distress and ceased operations after the New York State Liquor License
Authority (SLA) revoked the Westside license and the Eastside voluntarily
surrendered its license to the SLA shortly thereafter. Based on these
circumstances, the Company conceded that collection on outstanding royalties and
notes receivable amounting to $1,540,870 and $1,867,310 from these affiliates
were uncollectible as of December 31, 2006. Cash collected from these affiliates
amounted to $35,928 from the Westside and $14,788 East for the period ended
2008. During the 2008 period the Company purchased the Master
License from EMS for $600,000 and issued a credit for $600,000 against the
Eastside affiliate outstanding royalty balance and reversed bad debt
expense.
F-8
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
Advertising
Costs
The costs
of advertising are expensed as incurred. The advertising expenses for the years
ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 are $0 and $10,184 respectively.
Stock
Based Compensation
The
Company accounts for the plans under the recognition and measurement provisions
of Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 718 Compensation – Stock
Compensation. The standard requires entities to measure the cost of
employee services received in exchange for stock options based on the grant-date
fair value of the award, and to recognize the cost over the period the employee
is required to provide services for the award.
There
were no stock options issued during the above. The Company recognizes
compensation expense under Topic 718 over the requisite service period using the
Black-Scholes model. We have recorded no compensation expense
for stock options granted to employees during the year ended December 31, 2009
and 2008.
Assumptions
utilized computing fair value under the Black Scholes model are as
follows:
For
the year ended
December
31,
|
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2009
|
2008
|
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Risk
free interest rate
|
.47 | % | .37 | % | ||||
Expected
life
|
3.5
years
|
4.5
years
|
||||||
Dividend
rate
|
0.00 | % | 0.00 | % | ||||
Expected
volatility
|
47 | % | 37 | % |
Revenue
recognition
The
Company records revenues from its license agreements on a straight line basis
over the term of the license agreements. If a license agreement is terminated
then the remaining unearned balance of the deferred revenues are recorded as
earned if applicable. Revenue is recognized when earned, as products are
completed and delivered or services are provided to customers.
Revenues
earned under its royalty agreements are recorded as they are
earned.
Income
Taxes
The
Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740-10-25, “Accounting
for Income Taxes”. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the
future tax consequences attributable to differences between financial statement
carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax
bases and operating loss and tax credit carry forwards. Deferred tax assets and
liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be
recovered or settled.
The
Company has a net operating loss carryforward of approximately $6,105,000, which
expire in the years 2015 and 2029. The related deferred tax asset of
approximately $2,700,000 has been offset by a valuation
allowance. The Company’s net operating loss carryforwards may have
been limited, pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code Section 382, as to the
utilization of such net operating loss carryforwards due to changes in ownership
of the Company over the years.
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Deferred
tax assets:
|
||||||||
Net
operating loss carryforward
|
$ | 2,700,000 | $ | 2,630,000 | ||||
Receivable
allowance
|
— | — | ||||||
Less
valuation allowance
|
(2,700,,000 | ) | (2,630,000 | ) | ||||
Net
deferred tax asset
|
$ | — | $ | — |
F-9
SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
The
reconciliation of the Company’s effective tax rate differs from the Federal
income tax rate of 34% for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, as a
result of the following:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Tax
(benefit) at statutory rate
|
$ | (54,000 | ) | $ | 46,000 | |||
State
and local taxes
|
(16,000 | ) | 14,000 | |||||
Permanent
differences
|
— | (109,000 | ) | |||||
Change
in valuation allowance
|
(70,000 | ) | 49,000 | |||||
Tax
due
|
$ | — | $ | — |
Loss per
Share
Under ASC
260-10-45, “Earnings Per Share”, basic loss per common share is computed by
dividing the loss applicable to common stockholders by the weighted average
number of common shares assumed to be outstanding during the period of
computation. Diluted loss per common share is computed using the weighted
average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares
outstanding during the period. There were no common stock equivalents or
potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the years ended December 31,
2009 and 2008, respectively. The 85,000 options are not included as their
inclusion is anti-dilutive. Accordingly, the weighted average number
of common shares outstanding for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008,
respectively, is the same for purposes of computing both basic and diluted net
income per share for such years.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
Accounting
Estimates and Assumptions
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates
and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the
reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Concentration
of Credit Risk
The
Company earned royalties and merchandise revenues from four licensees who are
unrelated from management of the Company. During the December 31, 2009 period,
revenues earned from royalties and merchandise sales from these unrelated
licensees amounted to $232,678 and there was $21,986 due and outstanding as of
December 31, 2009. The Company’s New York affiliate commenced
operations in May 2009 and revenue amounted to $154,747 during the 2009 period.
The Company’s Baltimore and Chicago licensees’ revenues increased 130% to
$105,358 in the 2009 period from $45,830 in the 2008 period for Baltimore and
41% to $87,320 in the 2009 period from $62,118 in the 2008 period
Chicago. In addition, revenues from the Company’s New Orleans
nightclub increased 106% to $37,000 in the 2009 period from $18,000 in the
2008. The Company’s AYA, Scoreslive.com licensee website is still in
the development stage since 2007, it has accounted for a minimal amount of our
total royalty revenues to date.
New
Accounting Pronouncements
All newly issued but not yet effective
accounting pronouncements have been deemed to either be irrelevant or immaterial
to the operations and reporting disclosures of the Company.
Note
3. Related-Party Transactions
a. On
January 27, 2009, the Company and Entertainment Management Services, Inc.
(“EMS”) completed the closing (the “Closing”) of the transfer from EMS to the
Company of all licensing and royalty rights granted to EMS by the Company under
that certain Amended and Restated Master License Agreement by and between EMS
and the Company (the “MLA”). Under the MLA, the Company had granted
EMS the exclusive worldwide license for twenty years plus six five-year renewals
at the option of EMS to sublicense the Company’s trademarks and related
properties (the “Licensing Rights”). Additionally, under the MLA, EMS
was entitled to receive 50% of the licensing fees paid by various non-affiliated
nightclubs (the Existing Sublicenses’”) to EMS (the “EMS Royalty
Rights”).
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
EMS is
owned by 333 East 60th Street
Inc. (“333”) and 333 is owned by the Share Sellers who are Richard Goldring and
Elliot Osher.
At the
Closing and pursuant to the terms of the transfer agreement by and between the
Company and EMS dated December 9, 2008, EMS assigned to the Company the
Licensing Rights and the EMS Royalty Rights relating to the Existing
Sublicenses, free and clear of any charges, liens or other encumbrances. In
consideration of these assignments, the Company credited 333 with a $600,000
payment against a $1,220,475 debt owed by 333 to the Company (the “Debt”) and
provided 333 with an acknowledgement that the Debt was satisfied to the extent
of the $600,000 payment. As of December 31, 2008, the remaining
balance was written off. Additionally, at the Closing, EMS and the
Company executed a cancellation and mutual release agreement canceling the MLA
and terminating all of the rights and obligations of the parties there
under.
b. Go
West Entertainment, Inc.
During
2008, the Company had a temporary month to month occupancy with Go West
Entertainment, Inc., “Go West”. The former President, Chief Executive
Officer Director of the Company is also one of the two shareholders of Go
West.
c.
“Unwinding” transaction and Master License Agreement
Immediately
after the closing of our transfer of Go West in 2002, the Company entered into a
Master License Agreement (the “Master License”) with Entertainment Management
Services, Inc. (“EMS”). The Master License granted to EMS the exclusive
worldwide license to use and to grant sublicenses to use the “SCORES” trademarks
in connection with the ownership and operation of upscale, adult-entertainment
cabaret night clubs/restaurants and for the sale of merchandise by such
establishments. Merchandise must relate to the nightclub that sells it, and may
be sold at the nightclub, on an internet site maintained by the nightclub, by
mail order and by catalogue. The term of the Master License was twenty years.
EMS had the option to renew the Master License for six consecutive five-year
terms. The Company was to receive royalties equal to 4.99% of the gross revenues
of all sublicensed clubs that are controlled by EMS. The Company was to also
receive royalties generated by sublicensing use of the SCORES name to adult
entertainment nightclubs that were not controlled by EMS.
In
consideration of all payments made by the Company on behalf of Go West for the
construction of the club, Go West gave to the Company its Secured Promissory
Note in the amount of $1,636,264. The principal of the Note was payable in sixty
monthly installments commencing on November 1, 2003 and ending on October 1,
2008. The first twelve monthly installments were $10,000 each. The next
forty-eight installments of principal were $31,289 each. Interest at the rate of
7% per annum was to accrue on the unpaid balance of principal until maturity.
Interest payments were due monthly with each installment of principal commencing
November 1, 2003. The Note was secured by Go West’s leased interest in its New
York nightclub. Interest receivable of $355,188 was due at December 31,
2008. Due to the matter regarding the State liquor Authority and the
Company’s affiliate Go West as discussed above in Item 3, Legal Proceedings, the
Company believes that collection of the $1,867,310 which includes accrued
interest of $355,189 has been impaired and, therefore, reserved for the full
amount outstanding of $1,867,310 as of December 31, 2008.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
d. Transactions
with Common ownership affiliates
On
January 27, 2009, the Company entered into a licensing agreement with its
affiliate through common ownership I.M. Operating LLC (“IMO”) for the use of the
Scores brand name “Scores New York”. IMO is also owned by Robert M.
Gans who is the Company’s majority shareholder. During the 2009 year,
IMO paid approximately $146,083 in administrative cost related to accounting,
business development, insurance and legal services for the
Company. The Company also leases office space directly from Westside
Realty of New York (WSR), the owner of the West 27th Street
Building. The majority owner of WSR is Robert M.
Gans. Between January 1, and March 31, 2009, the monthly rent
including overhead was $5,000. Since April 1, 2009, the monthly rent was reduced
to $2,500 per month including overhead costs. The Company owed WSR
approximately $62,500 in unpaid rents as of December 31, 2009.
Note
4. Intangible Assets
Trademark
In
connection with the acquisition of HEIR (also known as, Scores Licensing
Company) as discussed above, the Company acquired the trademark to the name
“SCORES”. This trademark had a gross recorded value at December 31, 2008 of
$878,318 which was derived from the initial purchase from HEIR for $250,000,
$175,000 of trademark as a result of the settlement agreement entered into in
September 2006 between the Company and affiliated parties and Scores
Entertainment Inc. (“SEI”) and Irving Bilzinsky (“Bilzinsky”) and $453,318 from
the result of our purchase of the Royalty Rights and Licensing Rights under the
MLA from EMS in December
2008. This trademark has been registered in the United States, Canada,
Japan, Mexico and the European Community. The trademark is being amortized by
straight line method over an estimated useful life of ten years. The Company’s
trademark having an infinite useful life by its definition is being amortized
over ten years due to the difficult New York legal environment for which the
related showcase adult club is operating. The Company recorded
$127,904 in 2009 and $59,720 of amortization expense, in
2008. The Company estimates that amortization expense will be
approximately $122,000 per year over the next two years before being completely
amortized.
During
the 2009 period, the Company believed that the carrying amount of the “Scores”
trademark was equal to its fair or net present value and as a result, did not
recognized any impairment loss; however, during the 2008 period, the Company
believed the carrying amount of the Trademark exceeded its fair or net present
value and recognized an impairment loss of $281,216. This
loss was based on the various adverse chains of events and circumstances
regarding the closing of our East and Westside affiliated clubs which management
believes these conditions may have had an adverse impact on our brand and
non-affiliate licensee operations.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
Note
5. Notes Payable
As a
result of the settlement agreement entered into in September 2006 between the
Company and affiliated parties and Scores Entertainment Inc. (“SEI”) and Irving
Bilzinsky (“Bilzinsky”), the Company was obligated to pay Bilzinsky, as sole
shareholder of SEI, $175,000 in 18 monthly installments, which commenced on
September 24, 2006, of $9,375 for each of the first 8 months and $10,000 for
each of the remaining 10 months. The Company extinguished the debt on
the settlement as of December 31, 2008.
Stock-Based
Compensation
Stock option plan: The below
options are unsubscribed and were granted to our former President, CEO, Director
and Secretary in consideration with their employment with the
Company. These options were granted by the Board for the optionee to
purchase shares of our common stock. These stock options are not
“incentive stock options” under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986. The granted options fully vested upon issuance on October 22
2002 and expire on March 31, 2013.
Stock
option activity for the two years ended December 31, 2009 is summarized as
follows:
Shares
|
Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
|
|||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2007
|
85,000 | $ | 2.80 | |||||
Granted
|
- | - | ||||||
Exercised
|
- | - | ||||||
Expired
or cancelled
|
- | - | ||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2008
|
85,000 | 2.80 | ||||||
Granted
|
- | - | ||||||
Exercised
|
- | - | ||||||
Expired
or cancelled
|
- | - | ||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2009
|
85,000 | $ | 2.80 |
Weighted-average
exercise price of outstanding options $2.80.
All such
options are vested and exercisable
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
The
intrinsic value of a stock option/SSAR is the amount by which the market value
of the underlying stock exceeds the exercise price of the
options/SSAR. The intrinsic value of the options/SSAR exercised in
the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 was $0 and $0
respectively.
Note
7. Commitments and Contingencies
Rent
expense for the year ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 was $32,500 and $56,000
respectively.
In July
2004, the Company sub-leased approximately 2,400 square feet of office space
from Go West, for $20,000 on a temporary, month-to-month basis. The
building is located at 533-535 West 27th Street, New York, NY. On
July 1, 2008 the Company canceled its monthly sub-lease with Go West and leased
the same premises for $5,000 per month including overhead costs, with Westside
Realty of New York which as of January 27, 2009 is owned and operated by Robert
Gans our majority shareholder. On April 1, 2009, our monthly rent
including overhead cost was reduced from $5,000 to $2,500.
On
January 14, 2010, the Company was named in a complaint filed with the Supreme
Court of the State of New York, County of New York (the “SCNY”) in connection
with an alleged assault on the plaintiff by an agent of the Company’s New York
affiliated club. The Company has not yet answered this complaint but will
vigorously defend itself in this litigation and does not expect that the outcome
will be material.
On June
23, 2009, the Company filed a complaint with the SCNY against Silver Bourbon,
Inc., its licensee in New Orleans and operator of Scores New Orleans, for breach
of contract. At the time of the filing, Silber Bourbon, Inc. owed the
Company $70,000 in unpaid royalties. Silver Bourbon, Inc. filed an
answer with the SCNY on October 12, 2009 and this matter is now in
discovery.
On
September 5, 2008, Ruth Fowler, a former cocktail waitress at Scores West, filed
a civil lawsuit against the Company in the Federal District Court for the
Southern District of New York (the “Court”). The plaintiff is seeking
to recover damages for alleged illegal deductions take from her salary and
monies due her and for sexual harassment under the New York City and New York
State Human Rights Laws. On May 7, 2009, the Company filed a motion
to dismiss the action against it but that motion was denied by the Court with
possible leave to renew the motion at a future date after the completion of
discovery proceedings. In the meanwhile, counsel for plaintiff filed
an amended complaint on February 26, 2010 to add as additional parties to the
action Go West and EMS. On March 1, 2010, the Company filed
affirmative defenses and an amended response asserting cross-claims for judgment
against both Go West and EMS. The case has been placed in the hands of a
magistrate judge and the Company has served various discovery demands which have
not been responded to as of yet by counsel for the
plaintiff. Although the outcome of this action is uncertain, the
Company believes that any outcome will not have a material effect on it, since
the plaintiff was only employed by Scores West for less than four
months.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
In early
March 2008, the Company received notice that DIF&B, owner of the Las Vegas
club, would be canceling its sublicense with EMS effective on or before May 6,
2008. We were notified that DIF&B would be making final royalty payments to
EMS totaling $60,000 at the rate of $10,000 per week starting the first week of
March 2008. The Las Vegas club ceased operating and, as of December 31, 2008,
EMS had received only one such $10,000 payment from DIF&B. EMS commenced an
action against DIF&B and filed a complaint and affidavit of service with the
SCNY, on July 23, 2008. DIF&B was required to file an answer by August 23,
2008, but did not do so. As a result, EMS filed an application for a default
judgment and the SCNY appointed a referee to determine damages. The referee
determined that damages in the amount of $216,000, with interest, should be paid
to EMS and a default judgment totaling $230,557 was entered by the Clerk of the
SCNY. The Company will attempt to collect on the judgment and will be
entitled to all monies so collected, pursuant to the Assignment Agreement with
EMS and 333.
On
December 11, 2007, Francis Vargas, a former cocktail waitress at Scores West
located in New York, NY, filed a civil lawsuit against us and Go West in the
SCNY, alleging violations of the New York State Human Rights Law, New York
Executive Law, New York City Human Rights Law, and the New York City
Administrative Code, based upon allegations of sexual discrimination and sexual
harassment. The lawsuit further alleges that at all material times both we and
Go West were employers of Ms. Vargas, the plaintiff. The law suit seeks
unspecified compensatory damages for plaintiff’s alleged loss of past and future
earnings and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation and loss of reputation.
We dispute that we were an employer of the plaintiff and categorically deny all
allegations of sexual discrimination and sexual harassment. We filed our
verified answer in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on February 12,
2008 to contest and defend against these accusations and we are currently
engaged in discovery. On April 18, 2008, co-defendant Go West filed for
bankruptcy and the case was stayed. On July 23, 2009, the bankruptcy
petition was dismissedand, as a result, the automatic stay has been
lifted.
On
October 9, 2007, former Go West bartender Siri Diaz filed a purported class
action and collective action on behalf of all tipped employees against us and
other defendants alleging violations of federal and state wage/hour laws (Siri Diaz
et al. v. Scores Holding Company, Inc.; Go West Entertainment, Inc. a/k/a Scores
West Side; and Scores Entertainment, Inc., a/k/a Scores East Side, Case
No. 07 Civ. 8718 (Southern District of New York (the “Court”), Judge Richard M.
Berman)). On November 6, 2007, plaintiffs served an amended purported class
action and collective action complaint, naming dancers and servers as additional
plaintiffs and alleging the same violations of federal and state wage/hour laws.
On or about February 21, 2008, plaintiffs served a second amended complaint
adding two additional party defendants, but limiting the action to persons
employed in the New York Scores’ clubs. The amended complaint alleged that we
and the other defendants are “an integrated enterprise” and that we jointly
employ the plaintiffs, subjecting all of the defendants to liability for the
alleged wage/hour violations. On behalf of the Company and the other defendants
the Company filed a motion to dismiss that portion of the Complaint that
asserted State law class action allegations; the Company also moved to dismiss
the claims of two of the named plaintiffs for failure to appear for depositions.
At the same time plaintiffs moved for conditional certification under the
federal law for a class of the servers, bartenders and dancers; the Company
opposed that motion. On May 9, 2008, the Court issued its decision, denying the
motion to dismiss and granting conditional certification for a class of servers,
cocktail waitresses, bartenders and dancers who have worked at Scores East since
October 2004. On May 29, 2008, the Company filed an answer to
plaintiff’s’ second amended complaint. On or about September 5, 2009,
plaintiffs served their third amended complaint adding in two individual
defendants who are alleged to be employers under the state and federal wage
claims. The Company disputes that it is a proper defendant in this action
and it disputes that it violated the federal and state labor laws, and further
disputes that the dancers are “employees” subject to the federal and state wage
and hour laws. Tthe Company intends to vigorously contest the claimed liability
as well as the violations alleged.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
On March
30, 2007, we, along with several of our affiliates, were named in a suit in
connection with an alleged assault by an employee of an affiliate and one of our
stockholders and former officer and director. We have recently
answered a third amended complaint and participated in a Preliminary Conference
to establish the discovery schedule. Examinations before trial of the parties
have been completed and non-party depositions are now being taken. The plaintiff
has not yet
undergone the required physical examination. We will vigorously defend ourselves
in this litigation and do not expect that the outcome will be
material.
On March
31, 2006, Richard K. Goldring, our former president, chief executive officer and
principal shareholder pled guilty to one count of offering a False Instrument
for Filing in the First Degree pursuant to a plea agreement with the District
Attorney of the County of New York (the “DA”). In the event that within one year
of the date of the entry of the guilty plea, Mr. Goldring resigns from all
“control management positions” that he holds in publicly traded companies,
including ours, and divests himself of all “control ownership positions” in
publicly traded companies, including ours, and satisfies certain other
conditions, the DA will recommend a sentence of probation. In this context, a
“control management position” is a role, official or unofficial, by which he
substantially directs the decisions of a company, and a “control ownership
position” is a position in which he controls, directly or indirectly more than
9% of the voting stock or other securities of a company, or stock or securities
that have the capability of being converted into voting stock or other
securities of a company. The plea agreement resolved the DA’s investigation
against Mr. Goldring and us. No charges were brought against us.
To comply
with the plea agreement between Richard Goldring and the District Attorney of
the County of New York, on September 4, 2008, Mr. Goldring transferred his
76,080,958 shares of our common stock (the “Goldring Shares”) to Ira Altchek as
trustee (the “Trustee”). According to the terms of the Voting Trust Agreement by
and between Mr. Goldring and the Trustee dated September 4, 2008, the Trustee
had the right to exercise all rights and powers of a shareholder of the Company
with respect to the Goldring Shares, including, without limitation, the sole and
exclusive right to vote the Goldring Shares, while Mr. Goldring maintained the
right to sell the Goldring Shares at any time. The Goldring Shares represented
approximately forty six percent (46%) of the outstanding capital stock of the
Company as of the December 31, 2008. On January 27, 2009, Mr.
Goldring sold all of the Goldring Shares in a private transaction with Buyer, as
further discussed above.
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SCORES
HOLDING COMPANY INC. and SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
TWO YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
There are
no other material legal proceedings pending to which we or any of our property
are subject, nor to our knowledge are any such proceedings
threatened.
Note
8. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
We have
evaluated for disclosure purposes the subsequent events through April 13,
2010.
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