ntains clauses stating that New York law would govern the "construction, validity, and per- formance" of the 1999 Note and the Amended 1999 Note. (Id Ex. A at 8-9; Ex. B at 7-8; Ex. D at 10; Ex. E at 2-3.) Sometime in the spring of 2001, Epstein and FTC discovered that the MG Invest- ment was "sudd