im trying to restore a backup from my old iphone 5 to my ipad and its not working

I did a backup on my i phone 5 before I had to get rid of it. Now, I need to pull up my contacts and reminders and don't know how. I tried to restore the backup to my i pad 2 and nothing comes up. It tells me the i pad has been restored but none of my old info is on there.can somebody help me. i just need to pull up my old info.! Also, i did not use the cloud for a backup.