Metro Area includes counties in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. See Dep’t of Labor, May 2011 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Definitions, available at http://www.bls. gov/oes/current/msa — def.htm. Thus, contrary to Defendants’ assertion, the Commission Agreement was not to be performed exclusively in Washington, D.C. Because the contract was to be performed in multiple states (and there is no reason to believe that one predominated over the others), the choice-of-law analysis reverts back to the place where the contract was made. East West argues that the Commission Agreement was made in Virginia-a contention that Defendants do not contest and therefore concede. See Kinetic Concepts, Inc. v. Convatec Inc., No. 1:08cv918, 2010 WL 1667285, at *8 (M.D.N.C. Apr. 23, 2010) (<HOLDING>) (collecting cases). Accordingly, the Virginia
recognizing the general principle that a party who fails to address an issue has conceded the issue holding that plaintiff conceded the merits of an issue when he did not respond in any way to defendants argument on that issue in his opposition before the district court holding that when an appellant fails to offer an argument on an issue that issue is abandoned holding that a defendant who fails to raise a specific issue as the basis for suppression in a motion to suppress to the district court has waived the right to raise that issue on appeal holding that an issue is waived when a party fails to provide adequate citation to authority