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you didn't create a menu item for this page, and consequently your menu module is not assigned to it.
usually your menu module will be assigned to all pages. but apparently you are choosing only selected menu items to have it displayed on.

option 1 -- create a menu item for this page instead of just a constructed link, and then assign the menu to it (I often will create a "link setting" menu for non-visible menu items like this. since Joomla depends heavily on the menu item structure, it's not uncommon that i need a menu item but don't actually want it visible)

option 2 -- check out the advance module manager extension (on the JED). it gives you a lot more options for handling module assignment, including the ability to assign a module to a specific extension. so you could configure it to ensure your menu module always appears on all civicrm pages.

note that Civi doesn't always handle the Itemid (menu item) all that well. something we need to improve in future versions. for example, it can lose the Itemid for second-step pages --- such as the confirmation and thank you pages in contrib forms. option 2 above should overcome this pretty well.