Attempting to scp from one droplet to another only copied to local droplet

I had to instantiate a droplet from a snapshot of another droplet to recover some files I managed to delete. I logged into the new Droplet (lz2), created an ssh key pair, and copied and pasted the id_rsa.pub key contents to the authorized_keys file on the orignal Droplet. I was able to ssh to it after that without issue.

But try as I might, I could not get scp or rsync to work. They would just copy to the local host. I tried invoking it several different ways:

rmann@lz2:~$ scp nginx.tgz lz1:
rmann@lz2:~$ scp nginx.tgz lz1:ng.tgz
rmann@lz2:~$ scp nginx.tgz rmann@lz1:ng.tgz
rmann@lz2:~$ scp nginx.tgz <lz1’s IP address>:ng.tgz

All of them resulted in ng.tgz being created in ~rmann on lz2. For the life of me I can’t figure out what was happening.

I ended up copying the file down to my laptop from lz2 and back up to lz1.

Any idea why it wouldn’t copy from one Droplet to the other, but also not give me an error, isntead copying to the local machine?