Last paragraph of the article.
Balber explained that if a defendant is served with a summons for a lawsuit in the state and neither party lives in the county where the summons is served, then the plaintiff gets to decide the county in which the lawsuit is filed.
If he's not a citizen of this country, and the crime happened in a different country - how can he be sued in our court system?
That speaks to where venue would lie in New York, but it still doesn't answer the jurisdictional quesiton. I haven't resarched NY law, but there are some fundamental constitutional due process issues involved.