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Exhibit E
to Declaration of Robert H. Thornburg
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STEVEN BLACKBURN Volume I Non-Confidential Portion November 07, 2014
ADOBE SYSTEMS vs. BEA'S HIVE 1

· · · · · · UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT


· · · · · · SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

· · · · · Case No. 14-81102-CIV-COHN/SELZER

· · · · · · · · VOLUME I· ·Page 1-200

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED,

· · · · · · · Plaintiff,

vs.

BEA'S HIVE, LLC; FULFILLMENT SOLUTION SERVICES, LLC;


NEW EPIC MEDIA, LLC; SELACORP, LTD; SUPREME GROWERS,
LLC; VEGALAB, LLC; STEVEN BLACKBURN; DAVID SELAKOVIC;
and DOES 1-19; inclusive,

· · · · · · · Defendants.
____________________________________________________X

· · · · · · · ·NON-CONFIDENTIAL PORTION

· · · · · · · ·VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF

· · · · · · · · · ·STEVEN BLACKBURN

· · · · · ·TAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF

· · · · · · · · · ·November 7, 2014
· · · · · · · · 1:33 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

· · · · · · · · ·515 N. Flagler Drive


· · · · · · · · · · · Suite 1701
· · · · · · · West Palm Beach, FL 33401

· · · · · Jennifer DiLorenzo, court reporter

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STEVEN BLACKBURN Volume I Non-Confidential Portion November 07, 2014
ADOBE SYSTEMS vs. BEA'S HIVE 127

·1· · · ·A.· · I know that he financed things and so,


·2· yes, any money that came into me I accounted for I
·3· knew it was because he made it possible.
·4· · · ·Q.· · Right.· So, again, I want to clarify this, the
·5· money, in your mind, that you owe to Mr. Selakovic is the
·6· same money that you owe to Selacorp and United Finance.
·7· · · ·A.· · Correct.
·8· · · ·Q.· · And when you make any payment whatsoever to
·9· Mr. Selakovic, United Finance, or Selacorp, in your mind
10· you're making payment to all three of one debt, not
11· multiple debts.
12· · · ·A.· · I've never paid Mr. Selakovic directly.
13· I've always sent money either to United Finance or to
14· Selacorp.
15· · · ·Q.· · Right.· Which would exhaust the debt you owed
16· to him personally.
17· · · ·A.· · Correct.
18· · · ·Q.· · Good.· Okay.· And then there appears to be an
19· exception made in the following sentence, it reads, "Any
20· outstanding account payable on Fulfillment Solution
21· Services (sic), LLC to me or any of my entities will be
22· payable from profits only and not from you personally";
23· do you have any understanding as to what that means?
24· · · ·A.· · I believe that's the inventory that we
25· shipped to Fulfillment Solutions Services from

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STEVEN BLACKBURN Volume I Non-Confidential Portion November 07, 2014
ADOBE SYSTEMS vs. BEA'S HIVE 187

·1· · · ·Q.· · Turn to page 27.· Again, it's a strange one


·2· because it's Performance Data; do you see that?
·3· · · ·A.· · Yes.
·4· · · ·Q.· · But the quantity and the amounts are zeroed
·5· out, do you have an explanation for that?
·6· · · ·A.· · I don't.· And it says, "Mac" too, which is
·7· weird because they were always a PC, so I have no
·8· idea what that's about.
·9· · · ·Q.· · If you can turn to page 29, and I believe that
10· goes all the way to 53, so if you just hold up 29 to 53
11· you will see that the supplier identified is Selacorp,
12· Ltd., on page 29, on Page 53 the total amount of all
13· Adobe software purchased from Selacorp, correct?
14· · · ·A.· · Correct.
15· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· So what Exhibit 118 tells us is that
16· from Selacorp, Bea's Hive purchased 105,538 Adobe units,
17· right?
18· · · ·A.· · Correct.
19· · · ·Q.· · For a total purchase price of $15,605,951,
20· right?
21· · · ·A.· · Correct.
22· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· So this is money that Bea's Hive has
23· paid Selacorp for Adobe software.
24· · · ·A.· · Correct.
25· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· But you're in the arrears about

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STEVEN BLACKBURN Volume I Non-Confidential Portion November 07, 2014
ADOBE SYSTEMS vs. BEA'S HIVE 193

·1· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· Just real fast on the same page, you
·2· would agree that Bea's Hive also purchased from
·3· SoftwareMedia and SoftwareSpeedy Adobe products, right?
·4· · · ·A.· · Yes.
·5· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· Moving on again to a few other vendors
·6· I want to touch on, 62, the big one that you wanted to go
·7· to, United Finance.
·8· · · ·A.· · Sixty-two.
·9· · · ·Q.· · Page 62, please.
10· · · ·A.· · Okay.
11· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· So as you indicated, Bea's Hive
12· purchased Adobe products from United Finance, right?
13· · · ·A.· · Yes.
14· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· And this goes all the way to page 73,
15· and this report tells us that from United Finance Bea's
16· Hive purchased 262,459 - 491 Adobe units, right?
17· · · ·A.· · Hold on.· I'm going getting there.· What
18· page?
19· · · · · · ·MR. RYAN:· 73 and on.
20· BY MR. PHAM:
21· · · ·Q.· · Seventy-three.
22· · · ·A.· · Correct.
23· · · ·Q.· · And Bea's Hive paid United Finance for its
24· purchase of Adobe products in the amount of $33,777,575,
25· right?

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STEVEN BLACKBURN Volume I Non-Confidential Portion November 07, 2014
ADOBE SYSTEMS vs. BEA'S HIVE 194

·1· · · ·A.· · Correct.


·2· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· Other than the very few and minor what
·3· you believe to be, you know, just either miss item, which
·4· is Steven Blackburn --
·5· · · ·A.· · Uh-huh.
·6· · · ·Q.· · -- okay, and Performance Data --
·7· · · ·A.· · Uh-huh.
·8· · · ·Q.· · -- this Exhibit 118 accurately depicts all
·9· vendors who sold Adobe products to Bea's Hive?
10· · · ·A.· · Yes.
11· · · ·Q.· · Okay.· Does Exhibit 118 accurately depict all
12· the quantities of Adobe products sold to Bea's Hive?
13· · · ·A.· · Yes.
14· · · ·Q.· · The actual description of the product sold to
15· Bea's Hive?
16· · · ·A.· · Yes.
17· · · ·Q.· · The per unit price and the total cost of goods
18· sold of these items?
19· · · ·A.· · Yes.
20· · · ·Q.· · Good.
21· · · · · · ·MR. RYAN:· I need to take about two
22· · · ·minutes.
23· · · · · · ·MR. PHAM:· Sure.· Let's go off the record.
24· · · · · · ·THE VIDEOGRAPHER:· Okay.· Off the record
25· · · ·at 5:34 p.m.

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